"Richard Clark" wrote
Both Reg and you would do well to obtain and read a copy.

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Until now I have not contributed to this discussion. Neither now and
very little in the past. So please leave me out of it.

I have produced one small program (I am surprised at the attention
drawn to it) which computes radiating efficiency of a short vertical
antenna based on a novel analysis of ground loss, ie., shallow buried
radial wires which behave as lossy transmission lines.

All I have to say is that the program gives the "right" answers.
Disprove it if you can.

It is as accurate as the ground "constants" are known, that is about
plus or minus 30 percent. The answers are forthcoming within
milli-seconds. No need to go on a one month training course. And it's
free. What more do you want?

To prove it wrong you have to create a set up similar to that pruduced
by BL&E - only this time don't forget to measure ground coductivity
and permittivity!

From what Roy says, BL&E were hardly better than bungling amateurs of
their era. The only reason their report is considered to be 'The
Bible' is because it was the only one ever produced and available at
the time.

They laid down so many radials it didn't matter what ground
conductivity was.
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Reg.