No, it's really more a matter of how the antenna is oriented relative to
the flow of the Earth's Chi.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Yuri Blanarovich wrote:
W7EL writes:

The driving point impedance of the antenna depends on where you drive
it, and it bears no relationship I know of to the wave impedance (which
is, I assume, what you mean by "resistive space impedance") close to the
antenna.


We can look at the lowest impedance in particular antenna, which will have
higher impedance points elsewhere along its length. Looking at different
antennas or arrays we can have antennas with higher lowest impedance. Like
folded dipoles and loops. Would that not indicate and provide closer "match" to
free space impedance? Again, K8CFU measured that folded monopole "surprisingly"
gave higher field strengths than simple monopole radiator. Wouldn't that
indicate that there is something "wrong" (good) about higher impedance
antennas? Capture area reflected in here?

Yuri, K3BU