Bob Dobbs wrote:
John Smith wrote:

Even rewriting the facts will not change any of this ... or, even
attempting to use language to obfuscate this will be unsuccessful.

Probably the two words of 'language'
that's so far been omitted are - 'capture area'!
A bigger net will capture more fish
even if you decide to throw most of them back.
I think it's better to have enough catch
to be able to throw some back
than bemoaning an empty net.

End fed antennas impedance vary wildly with length. A true long wire
(over a wavelength) picks up exactly as much + wave as it does - wave,
and therefore the net gain is zero except along a very narrow axis
extending off both ends (unterminated) or the far end only (terminated).
This is the only condition I know of where the antenna itself provides a
crude kind of space diversity.