Thanks!
What got me confused is this from the coil compendium thread where Eric says:
In the tandum mode the extra coil does operate as an eighth of a wavelength!
So probable the understanding changed with time.
In that description Eric describes how the mast is a capacitance to ground but also a mutual capacitance to the sky. I understand it that the longitudional waves propogate to the sky but now I wonder if the aether or counterspace that these longitudional waves travel into is made into a solid because of the high frequency. If so that would explain the virtual ground where these waves reflect on. Or perhaps the extra coil becomes the virtual ground because of the high speed? Or is it just a longitudional wave between earth and ionosphere?
What got me confused is this from the coil compendium thread where Eric says:
2) Next is the extra coil. This coil here operates with a propagation constant less than an eighth of a wavelength. Therefore the coil is operating as a simple inductance coil, not as a distributed network. The distributed network capacity of this mode can be expressed as a definite terminal capacitance. Hence the inductance of this coil is adequately represented by its static inductance.
So probable the understanding changed with time.
In that description Eric describes how the mast is a capacitance to ground but also a mutual capacitance to the sky. I understand it that the longitudional waves propogate to the sky but now I wonder if the aether or counterspace that these longitudional waves travel into is made into a solid because of the high frequency. If so that would explain the virtual ground where these waves reflect on. Or perhaps the extra coil becomes the virtual ground because of the high speed? Or is it just a longitudional wave between earth and ionosphere?
The capacity of the mast consists of two components, one is the self capacity to earth in per Farads, the other is the mutual elastivity K to the ionosphere in per Farads. The measured mast capacity is a resultant, the square root of the ratio of self capacity, C, to the mutual elastivity, K. The actual values of C and K are unknown. The square root of the product of C and K is the propagation constant. The smaller the value of this constant, the greater is the electro-static coupling to the ionosphere.
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