But, end fed, you'll only be half an antenna. What's the other half?

Maybe you can figure out a way to gamma feed yourself as a vertical dipole.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Anonymous wrote:
In article , Mike Kaliski
wrote:

How do you intend to couple the RF to the radiating element? Dry skin has a
relatively high resistive value although once into the squishy stuff inside
your body, resistance values fall dramatically.

I hadn't given that much thought. Perhaps a salt-water soaked sponge
under one of my feet, while wearing waterproof boots.

Reception of signals would be okay. Receiver front ends generally have a
high impedence so your body would make a much better match to the receiving
side of the system.

Interesting. Perhaps I could make some sort of a small vertical
transmit antenna to wear on a hat or helmet, then, instead of using
myself. Maybe a baseball batting helmet would be stable enough to
support a few pounds of antenna without flopping around like a soft
hat.

The idea of a wearable station just grabbed me this evening. Just as a
novelty, I wouldn't expect to work DX with it.

Thanks for your response.