On Sep 14, 5:24*am, Richard Fry wrote:

In the case of a self-resonant, center-fed, 1/4-wave dipole, current
is maximum at the feedpoint and minimum at the ends of the dipole.
Therefore the ends radiate very little of the total applied power.

Correcting myself, that dipole would need to be about 1/2-wave long
for first self-resonance. But neither form of this dipole radiates
very much from its ends.

RF