On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:10:13 +0100, "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Efficiency = Rr / ( Rr + Radials ), which, in the present context,
is incorrect.

Hi Reggie,

Of course it is incorrect, it is a definition of your own invention.

Efficiency = Rr / ( Rr + Radials + Rsoil )

This is merely an elaboration of the commonplace
Efficiency = Rrad / ( Rrad + Rloss )
which you declared
is very much in error.

The error is yours, and your bafflegab that has flowed from this
pronouncement of an "error" has been in an effort to cover your
tracks. The wonderment you are met with is that you failed to
acknowledge that Rloss is commonly accepted to mean more than Ohmic
loss.

Reggie, the archive is rich with this discussion, and no one but
yourself makes the mistake of presuming Rloss has ever meant to be
confined to the Ohmic loss of the radiator's metal parts.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC