RE: Plane wave antenna thoughts

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Original poster: "Marco Denicolai" <marco.denicolai@xxxxxxxxxx>

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.

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

Best Regards