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The subject of ‘Power-Line Radiation and its Coupling to the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere’ is one of the topics of growing interest as an interdisciplinary problem on the impact of man-made or power-line systems on natural radio noise in our environment. Obviously we have two situations in terms of locations of the primary source origin or transmitting and receiving sites. One is the case when a man-made or power-line system is active as a transmitting antenna or radiator and radiates electromagnetic waves that tend to couple to the ionosphere and magnetosphere. The other is the opposite case where a man-made or power-line system is passive as a receiving antenna and the primary source origin is located in the ionosphere or magnetosphere. Then, potential differences of finite conductivity induced within the Earth produce a large quasi-dc current in a power-line system through its neutral grounded points.
While both these cases are currently receiving considerable attention over a wide range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary communities among man-made and natural radio noise workers, the study of power-line characteristics as a transmitting or receiving system or antenna is not new, going back as early as to the 1920s (Beverage et al., 1923), but has been a long-standing problem over several decades. This forms the groundwork for resolving environmental problems of the interference due to electromagnetic induction and radiation from man-made or power-line systems. In spite of a large number of investigations on wave propagation along and radiation from a wire above the ground (Sunde, 1968), to which all the problems are basically reduced, its physical mechanism of radiation is surprisingly still not well understood (Jenssen, 1949). We therefore begin with a brief survey of this problem, as details are discussed in a separate article in this issue.
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Kikuchi, H. Overview of power-line radiation and its coupling to the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Space Sci Rev 35, 33–41 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173690
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