Re: Terry's New Plane Wave Antenna

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Original poster: "Dmitry (father dest)" <dest@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,

> It is well known that coils tend to charge up the surroundings
> negatively due to the fact that negative voltages arc "easier" than
> positive ones.  Ie, mercury arc rectifier.

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B&R "Spark discharge", page 284:
"6.11.1. Negative leader.
[...]
it`s more difficult to make the breakdown by the negative voltage, we
need higher voltages to do that."

> However, the plane wave antenna does not see frequencies below say
> 15Hz so and DC or near DC signals are lost.

i mean the other - "you don`t really need any ionization or streamer
activity at all" near the antenna, to distort the fields, as a result
of charging the nearest objects.

> I have never seen any net
> charging on the antenna's or anything "odd" going on like that.

how can you see anything, if you eventually short C2 with 1M of scope
input resistance?
how can you see anything, if C2 is about 487805 times bigger than C3?

> It is interesting to wonder what the charging of surrounding objects
> does to streamer propagation.  If the surroundings had a high
> negative charge, negative streamers would be suppressed and the
> positive streamers would be helped.  But the only area that really
> counts is at the streamer head where the effects might not be so
> great do to the low impedance streamer path.

definitely not only at the leader head, but instead all area of the
"jacket" of charge - all this charge is screening the head and in the
end causes the leader to stop.

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