RE: Plane wave antenna thoughts

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Marco,

At 10:51 PM 1/4/2006, you wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> > So the streamers ionize the air and add a dynamic boundary condition
> > to the electrostatics between the topload and antenna....  I cannot
> > immediately confirm or deny that...
>
> Well, luckly we don't need to do that. In 1986, in France, Les Renardieres
> group did that measurement and documented it thoroughly in a publication.
>
> See:
> Les Renardieres Group: Double impulse tests of long airgaps. IEE Proc. A,
> pp. 3-483, vol. 133, Pt. A, no. 7, 1986.
>
> After them, a sequel of papers from many authors have confirmed their
> findings. Nowadays it is an assumed fact, not an hypothesis.

WOW!!!  Ok... Cool!!  I'll have to recalibrate my mind a little to 
compensate for that &:-)))


> No, I haven't got the paper as PDF, just paper copy and it's many pages :)

No problem, once we think about it, we can fill in the details and 
think of how it will affect us and test for it *:-))

It could explain a LOT about why streamers dart around like they do....

Cheers,

        Terry


> Best Regards