[Elecraft] Small QRP antenna

[Mike Morrow]

Don wrote:

> A 1/2 wave radiator fed at the end theoretically does not need
> any counterpoise, but in practice it does - but only needs to
> be about 0.05 wavelength long.
>
> Refer to some antenna books (the ARRL has a good one) or the ARRL 
> Handbook for good information about basic antennas.

The concise clarity of Don's input to this thread is refreshing.  Such seem to occur rarely in ham discussions about antennas.

With respect to classical end-fed half-wave antennas, I think of the end-fed Zepp[elin] and the common VHF J-poles.

Mike / KK5F