Dqavid just to clear some things up with reference to "gain"
There is no energy created or destroyed here, all I am doing with this
design is "flattening"
the 3D pattern that you see when you have a vertical whip style antenna.
Thus the radiation can be "pushed"
to augment the usefull existing gain on the horizon whether it
remains purely omni-directional or slightly directional..
I suppose that this can be seen as the various loops in the column have a
redirectiive effect on
high angle radiation emanating from the lower coils,
I'm off to bed
Cheers and beers
Art
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David
Idid describe an antenna that will do all the things that the new patent
claims and
it would not surprise me i9n the least if it turns out to be of the same
snip968$%_6.185742@attbi_s01,
wrote:

Yes, that does seem a reasonable aproach if you want to use the antenna
that
you describe.

It does give me thought about the new revolutionary antenna and the
impact
it will have on radio.

On reading your comments, Art, my feeling is that you've swallowed the
glowing claims in the original press releases hook, line, and sinker,
and as a result you are greatly over-estimating the likely impact of
this "revolutionary" technology.
snip