Art Unwin wrote:

...
rest of bull snipped... enough for today, i'm going to enjoy some nice old
scotch and enjoy the rest of the holiday.

Woww, you have slipped back into the abyss again. Statics and
radiation do not mix!
Have a happy Guy Faukes day with the fireworks
Art

Methinks that may have already been the scotch ... ;-)

Anyway, my "1/2 wave" omini-vertical is a "full wave antenna!"

180 degrees of the rf wave, proper, is in the radiator--180 degrees is
in the counterpoise (mirrored, of course--or, 180 degrees out of phase
with the radiator (and, of course, is a radiator itself.) This is
mostly due to the current unun/choke at the base of the radiator, on the
coax. Else it does have a tendency to attempt to use the coax as a
counterpoise ...

Anyway ... yawn ... a full wave is being supported in the antenna
hardware proper.

Regards,
JS