Yuri Blanarovich wrote:
If you're really interested in the "AREA under the current curve,"
you'll have to figure out how to make an efficient, continuously loaded,
short antenna. You'll find, though, that the difference between a
continuously loaded antenna and an antenna with the loading coil,
say, halfway up from the feedpoint won't amount to a hill of beans.
There's still no such thing as a "current drop."
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH



You are flying in a dreamland. Check the results of shootouts comparing
Haasticks and other continuously loaded antennas vs. Bugcatchers or top loaded.
You guys get your noses out of the books and check the reality.

73 Yuri

I wrote that you'd have to make an _efficient_, continuously loaded,
short antenna if you want to get the most area under the curve. That's
easier said than done. Certainly, you can't do it.
So a shootout is your idea of a reliable
antenna test. I guess it's no worse than using fish tank
thermometers to measure efficiency.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH