produced by the transducers can be understood by examining the quasi-static form of the Maxwell equations. We consider the geometry shown in Fig. 1 in which the static field and transducer axes are in the z direction, and the normal to the film is in the y direction. Written in terms of the Fourier-components of the microwave field, Maxwell’s quasi-static equations are: ω/ (2 π ) is the driving frequency, σ is the sample conductivity, and all components of the microwave field are presented as Fourier expansions in the in-plane direction x perpendicular to the transducer longitudinal axis z : m , h , e ∝ ∫ ∞ $_{−∞}$m$_{k}$ , h$_{k}$ , e$_{k}$ exp ( iωt ) exp ( − ikx ) dx . These expansions are needed in order to describe the in-plane inhomogeneous microwave field of the stripline transducers. Equations (1) can be reduced to a single second-order differential equation [15]: An analytical solution to this equation in the form of a Green’s function was obtained in [15]. Here we briefly discuss essential peculiarities which follow from Eq.(2) for conductive films. Waves with non-zero k in the film plane are traveling spin waves excited by the inhomoge- neous field created by the transducers [2]. The total microwave magnetic field in the samples h$_{k}$ in Eqs. (1) and (2) consists of several contributions. The first contribution is the field of the stripline transducer h$_{ek}$ . Another is the screening field h$_{Oek}$ which is also created by eddy currents in any nonmagnetic conducting body on whose surface a microwave magnetic field h$_{ek}$ is incident. The rest are magnetic contributions: the dipole h$_{dk}$ and the effective exchange h$_{exck}$ fields of the precessing magnetisation, and the field h$_{prk}$ which is created by the eddy currents which are induced by magnetisation precession. The contributions h$_{ek}$ and h$_{Oek}$ to h$_{k}$ remain present in Eq.(2) even when m$_{kx}$ is set to zero, thus they represent the excitation field which drives magnetization precession. In transducer experiments conductivity effects can be significant for films thinner than a magnetic skin depth, l$_{sm}$ and can considerably modify efficiency of excitation of magneti- 3 ∂ $^{2}$h$_{kx}$ /∂y 2 − [ iµ$_{0}$σω + k $^{2}$] h$_{kx}$ = [ iµ$_{0}$σω − k $^{2}$] m$_{kx}$ + ikm$_{ky}$. (2) ikh$_{ky}$ − ∂h$_{kx}$/∂y = σe$_{kz}$ (1) ke$_{kz}$ = − ωµ$_{0}$ ( h$_{ky}$ + m$_{ky}$ ) ∂h$_{ky}$/∂y − ikh$_{kx}$ = − ∂m$_{ky}$/∂y + ikm$_{kx}$.