"Richard Clark"
So back to rote:
The physical size in relation to wavelength dominates launch
characteristics, NOT electrical length.
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I don't know who wrote your rote, but here is part of what Terman says on
this topic in his Radio Engineer's Handbook, p 795, referring to vertical
radiators driven against ground:

"Top loading has the same effect on the field distribution in a vertical
plane as a greater height. Thus an antenna for which H = 0.45 lambda can by
suitable top loading be made to have a field distribution in the vertical
plane that is substantially the same as for a vertical wire of H = 0.6
lambda."

Or is that what you meant?

RF