"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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bilou wrote:

"Wayne" wrote in message
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If you can get 100 watts into a one foot long HF dipole, it will be just
as efficient as a half wave dipole that also has 100 watts into it.

But only on the very narrow band that your lossless matching covers.
If you want the bandwidth of an halfwave dipole you will need
a lot of one foot ones plus a lossless distribution filter.
Very far form "as efficient" IMHO
And on receive the things get worse :-)

# I don't think anyone disputes that it would be a hopeless antenna
# *system*. The point being that the antenna itself is not particularly
# inefficient in the technical sense, just very inconvenient to feed. And
# that was the original point in dispute.

Dead on explanation. Some have insisted that inefficiencies result from
antenna size and not from matching challenges.