Tom Donaly, KA6RUH wrote:
"I know there are people in the past who have attempted to characterize
antennas as transmission lines."

True. You can include Terman among them.

Terman discusses antenna current distribution on page 866 of his 1955
edition:

"Under most circumstances the losses are sufficiently low and the ratio
of wire length to diameter sufficiently great so that to a first
approximation the current distribution can be taken as that for a line
with zero losses; it then has the characteristics discussed in Sec,
4-5."

Sec.4-5 is found on page 95 and is titled: "The Effect of Attenuation on
Voltage and Current Distribution - Lossless Lines".

Sec. 4-5 is in Terman`s chapter on Transmission lines. Obviously an
open-circuit antenna has the same current distribution as an
open-circuit transmission line, and for the same reason.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI