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I just love Minute Physics! Thanks, Bill.
Interesting! If electron drift is only .0000000001% of the speed of light then it takes 3.5 + minutes for a charge to transit a one foot long wire? That accounts for my slow signals! How long is YOUR antenna?
Ooops! Slip of the calculator! Just under a millisecond. But still much much too slow. Nearly a second for a thousand foot wire.
Individual electrons take a surprisingly long time to move through wire (they are VERY small!) http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100419195002AA2kF6H
What moves rapidly is the ENERGY we are producing!