This guy is REALLY confused about antennas

Someone I know via the internet, not in person, is pretty dumb. He is forever asking me questions, and I get a bit fed up with it.

Anyway, completely out of the blue he sent me this little comment yesterday. I thought it was good enough to share.


So the bigger the antenna the more gain it would have. The antenna has to be at least 1/4 wavelength of the frequency of the signal we want to transmit to be useful.
since the earth is not conductive and since it also has magnetism we cant use the earth as an antenna, but can we use a metallic mountain (mountain with a lot of metals like iron)? one can change the shape of it and use its huge body as a reflector, so can a mountain be used as an antenna?

Dave

Yeah, I do that all the time.

I'm thinking of building a VLF antenna, if someone has spare time could they help me move Mt Everest to my back yard please. I don't need all of it, only the metal from it of course so it makes the job much easier.

Brian.

I believe the Iron Mountains exist in Tolkiens Middle-Earth but not on our planet.

A medium wave antenna tower uses in fact the earth surface as ground plane respectively a reflector. In so far the idea isn't particularly new.