Actually, it may be, and it may have had nothing to do with that guy
wire/ground wire you were visually looking at (well, not directly--and
it serving as an antenna)... in the presence of VERY STRONG magnetic
fields, rf fields can be dramatically warped and rf fields bent and
focused... and, it is not uncommon to find hundreds of amps (in some
instances thousands have been recorded), at a very low voltage, around
such poles... but that is a whole different story which has not been
investigated well yet...

Warmest regards,
John
"Hal Rosser" wrote in message
news I was outdoors with a portable radio -
I happened to walk under one of those telephone-pole guy wires
and the signal increased dramatically.
It increaded more
when I placed the telescoping antenna
on the guy wire.
it was magic

by the way -
you oughta change your do-hickie program
to send text-only
instead of html
to the newsgroup

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