On Nov 30, 11:25 am, Richard Clark wrote:

The advice is sufficient for a receiving antenna, hence the source of
Radio Habana Cuba's recommendation. It is especially poor for
transmitting, hence its absence in Radio Habana Cuba's transmitting
antenna farm. Those two clues should be sufficient.


Good enough for me. Maybe I'll experiment with a 2 meter receiving
antenna just to compare it to a ground plane. I'll just stick with my
plans to put up a long dipole with no coils.

Jim