"Jerry" wrote in message
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Roy is certainly right! The vehicle is the other half of the "dipole".
It
is why if you stick a bugcatcher at random on a broomstick, it won't work:
SWR will be thru the roof.. Or you could hang a dipole for a given band
(your choice), then snip off the side that went to the coax shield (or
vice
versa). So, yes, the vehicle is the other half of the antenna. You could
even look at it as an right-side up "L"!

Ditto.

I worked Navy EMI for many years. The US Navy uses a variety of antennas
for HF transmissions on its ships. The hull of the ship and everything in
it conduct the HF, no matter what the antenna. Everything on a ship is
conducting HF at such levels that they're often high enough to interfere
with other equipment.

If Paul Harvey were here, he'd say, " ... and now you know the rest of the
antenna."