[TowerTalk] End Fed Wire

[Jim Brown]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:48:27 +0000, ersmar at comcast.net wrote:

>But Jim is correct - you need a connection to ground/earth for the
>model to work.  

And for the antenna to work! That connection, and the wire that 
makes it, IS part of the antenna, whether you CALL it part of the 
antenna or not. That wire will radiate, just like any other wire 
carrying RF current. Just because we CALL it a ground wire doesn't 
prevent it from radiating (and receiving).

I teach RFI to sound contractors and other audio guys, ane thing I 
impress upon them as that even through we may CALL something a 
microphone cable or speaker cable or a ground wire, mother nature 
calls it an antenna. And mother nature always wins. 

Jim Brown  K9YC