On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:41:33 -0000, "Airy R.Bean"
wrote:

Discussed in the "Antenna Manual", by Woodrow Smith,
pub "Editors and Engineers Ltd " dated 1948.

He refers to the "Brown Ground Plane Antenna" and separately
to the "Drooping Ground Plane Antenna"

But does he refer to the 'drooping' as an impedance-matching device?

If not, what reason does he give for the technique?