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| From | "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: off topic: old house wiring? |
| Date | 2015-12-11 15:49 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n4er67$lin$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <n4d316127e2@news6.newsguy.com> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1512102309440.27954@darkstar.example.org> <dd051aF475qU1@mid.individual.net> <n4enh9$65q$1@dont-email.me> <dd073fF4n97U1@mid.individual.net> |
"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in message news:dd073fF4n97U1@mid.individual.net... > "gareth" wrote: > >> "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in message >> news:dd051aF475qU1@mid.individual.net... >>> "Michael Black" wrote: >>> >>>> I remember reading in a surplus column in a ham magazine decades ago >>>> that the US Navy had a very low frequency transmitter, and they had to >>>> keep replacing the radials because beachcombers would come upon the >>>> wire buried in the sand (apparently so long that it wasn't all on >>>> government land) and cut off pieces of it. >>> >>> That reminds me that I *still* don't know what the heck a counterpoise >>> is all about. The list of unknowns continues to grow. >> >> >> A counterpoise is a wire, usually connected to earth at one end, and >> running on top of the earth >> or quite close to it, so that an end-fed antenna behaves more like a >> balanced antenna so as to >> keep the high voltage part of the standing wave AWAY from the >> transmitter. >> >> Think about the standard dipole, the high voltages are at the ends, the >> low or zero voltages of the standing >> wave are in the middle > > I know how to *build* one, I just don't see the point. High RF voltages around the transmitter get in everywhere, including giving the operators nasty RF shocks.
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