___The answer is yes. I reference Art Bell in Pahrump Nevada, a radio Ham. He has a loop antenna that is over 2,000 feet long, which is elevated on 70 foot towers. (I don't remember these measures exactly, but I will give a link) This antenna is relatively new, & when he first put it up it exhibited a considerable constant voltage. Of course you can't allow this voltage into your radio equipment & he had to take measures to discharge this voltage.
___More to your point, while he did isolate the voltage from his radio, it persists, and persists at a high potential. He has asked for experts to explain where this voltage is coming from, both on his radio show Coast To Coast AM & their website,
http://www.coasttocoastam.com As far as I know, no single explanation is paramount.
___If you want to try an experiment, string out say 300' of thin wire (break apart some old power converter & strip wire from one of the transformer coils) around your yard, & then use a multimeter with the Neg (black) probe in the ground & Pos (red) on your wire to see if you measure a voltage. If you do, record the voltage, then shorten the wire & repeat the measurement. Repeat.
___If you conduct this experiment, we all here would love to see your results. Hope this helps.
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
