Art, KB9MZ.......XG wrote:
"ARRL states that an antenna is a simple parallel circuit but this
concentration on antenna workings is blind siding --------."

Stop right there. The type of resonant circuit depends upon length and
construction of the antenna. My 20th edition of The ARRL Antenna Book
says on page 2-6:
"Near its half-wave resonant frequency, a center-fed lamba/2 dipole
exhibits much the same characteristics as
a coventonal series-resonant circuit."

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI