"Bob Miller" wrote in message
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Maybe I'm missing something, who manufactures vertical vhf dipoles?

bob
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US Navy has two, at least, NT-66095 for the VHF aircraft band and a
shortened version, NT-66095MOD, for the 160 MHz Marine band. Also, do a
Google search on "dipole sleeve" and "dipole cage" to see a few others.
Military also uses some biconical dipoles for receive only. They look like
two funnels, connected together at the skinny end and are all mounted
vertically for omni coverage, IIRC.

Would it be cheating to call the J-pole a vertical dipole? It is a
free-space half-wave radiator, albeit end-fed.