[Milsurplus] BC-224-A + BC-307-A

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

> you wouldn't say the 3 foot riser was the only radiating element. 
  The only VERTICAL radiating element

I would say.  The horizontal component is a capacity hat & doeasn't radiate

The acft fuselage is the 'ground plane' beneath which, in the math sense,
is the "riser's" image.  This makes a short vertical dipole.

But the horizontal part has no polar corralary & hence is a capacity hat.
Might say, if grinch, only a gazouta, no gazinta.

This is a fact unilaterally disunderstood by USN "tech pefressunals."

Those ship-board "long wires" were JUST capacity hats agasinst the 
hull's perfect ground."  The RISER was all that radiated.

BC375s, etc. w. trailing wires did OK.  Fuselage was "ground plane."  But
fighters w. '183s & ATAs, etc....  horrible hf efficiency fm the "riser."
So fm that view, the 522 was a gettin'-out breakthru.

Ask Marconi, Tesla, or a communications OFC.  But don't ask a radio ET.

Don't mean to be a snot.  Just the facts maam.

  'rm