"Cecil Moore" wrote

I've been working on a particle beam that ionizes 33 feet
of air for use as an efficient mobile antenna on 40m. Have
I been wasting my time?

Unless you can stuff that antenna into a container the size
of two shoe-boxes, and achieve a 9 point something dBi
gain on 160M at the same time, yeah, you're wasting time.
Art's already beat you to it. And Art's antenna doesn't
care one never-mind about the phase information in the
standing wave current ;) good luck in the contest.

Mike W5CHR
Memphis