Anonymous wrote:
I am a slender fellow, about 185 centimeters tall. I wonder if I can
use _myself_ as a monopole antenna for a wearable QRP station.
(Transmitter in shirt pocket, handheld straight key, and self as
antenna.) What is my impedance likely to be?

Will you be wearing an aluminum top hat?
Where will you be sticking the coax connector?
What grounds have you for doing this?

Irv VE6BP (the devil makes me do it!)

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