Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:
How do you know there is no corona discharge?

Because under passive fairweather conditions, corona
requires 13 magnitudes more current than is available
in nature. Please see my other posting.

And just a comment on your seeming innocent question
above. You seem to be asking me to prove that there
is no corona discharge when proving a negative is
impossible. The onus of proof is upon the one(s) who
assert(s) the positive position.

W8JI asserted that there is a corona discharge and
you agreed with him. Therefore, the onus of proof
is upon you. Please prove that corona can exist
on a receiving antenna under passive fairweather
conditions.


Cecil,

I have not said that I agree with W8JI or that corona is a necessary
condition for radio noise.

What I have said is that I disagree with your half-baked fractured
physics explanations.

Corona does not require ANY preexisting current, and certainly not the
global "fairweather" current. The high fields near a sharp point will
create all the corona current necessary.

73,
Gene
W4SZ