[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 34, Issue 118

[johna8119-amps@yahoo.com]

My guess is that Maxwell would get as much of a kick out of looking through this site as I did. 
And probably as much as Kabbary et al. did in posting such silliness.

73

John
w4kv
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:41:30 -0500
> From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] CFA
> To: <w4kv at arrl.net>, <towertalk at contesting.com>
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> > If you're interested in Crossed Field Antennas as well as
> advanced physics, check out this site:
> >
> > http://www.crossedfieldantenna.com/
> 
> 
> J.C. Maxwell is spinning in his grave with the nonsense on
> that site.
> 
> Maxwell's equations simply showed the relationship between
> time varying electric and magnetic fields. In other words
> when you have a time varying magnetic field, there must
> always be a time varying electric field. There isn't
> anything in the physics of electromagnetics that says we can
> mix induction fields and create the effect we know as
> radiation. EM radiation is caused by charge acceleration,
> not by mixing of energy storage fields. You can't take a
> totally different effect caused by charges just "being
> there" in uneven distribution (the electric field) and mix
> it with an effect caused by charges moving (magnetic field)
> and produce a third very distinct effect we call radiation.
> These effects don't even decay at the same rate as we move
> away from the source!
> 
> Kabbary must have never quite understood his Freshman
> Physics courses.
> 
> 73 Tom