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docs: document the Sommerfeld near-ground limitation deck (PR #137) - #141

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Follow-up to the just-merged #137: adds a Tests entry to the CHANGELOG (Unreleased) and a Known-limitation decks section to testharness/README.md documenting what sommerfeld_near_ground.nec demonstrates.

All figures verified against current master before merging #137 (see PR #137 discussion verification): GN 2 σ=1e10 gives R ≈ 1.759 Ω / gain 1.043 in nec2++ and nec2c where the GN 1 perfect-conductor reference is R = 0.9168 Ω / gain 1.9953, and the pre-e3f81e6 code accidentally landed near the exact limit (reproduced on a8e829e: R = 0.9239, gain 1.9802).

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Add a Tests entry to the CHANGELOG and a Known-limitation decks section
to the testharness README for sommerfeld_near_ground.nec: a horizontal
half-wave dipole 0.02 wavelengths above a GN 2 ground with sigma 1e10
(effectively a perfect conductor).

Verified on master: every engine descends from SOMNEC and returns
R ~ 1.759 ohms / gain ~ 1.043 where the perfect-conductor limit (GN 1)
is R = 0.9168 ohms / gain 1.9953; the pre-e3f81e6 interpolation bug
accidentally landed near the exact limit (R = 0.924, gain 1.980,
reproduced on a8e829e). The deck joins SOM_TESTS and documents current
behavior on all engines rather than gating pass/fail.
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