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Dave Platt wrote:

I'd say it's in the "tongue in cheek" category. The final sentence
says it: "My gratitude... to all of the above for contributing valuable
jargon with which to obfuscate the subject."

The jargon is made up; the antenna was real. So was the radiation
pattern. (We drove around Sunnyvale taking measurements.) I don't
recall why "73" published the article in April. A similar article
appeared in an Australian ham magazine, probably not in an April
issue.


Patty