Tdonaly wrote:

The real test will be when someone tries to make a new, improved
antenna based on the belief that the current taper on the loading coil
of a physically short antenna makes a tinker's damn worth of difference
in the far field radiation of said antenna.

That's right. Cavemen didn't need to understand fire in order to make
fire. They knew everything they needed to know about it. In fact, fire
has not changed one iota with the advent of modern science.