Bill Cypher on Nostr: Receiving is different than transmitting because there is no risk from SWR for ...
Receiving is different than transmitting because there is no risk from SWR for starters. So your antenna match is far less important.
In many cases it is only an illusion that it is just a stick. An antenna on your car is using the car body and frame as one side of a dipole.
It is very complicated and few people really understand it. Take a look at this design. Part of the shield of coax is folded back over. Only the folded part of the shield acts like part of the dipole and only the extended center wire acts like antenna with the part inside the shield being feed line.
I made one and it is a great single band pack antenna that I can weave through the molle on my pack and it still beats a typical rubber duck on my HT. (A rubber duck on your HT is using you as the ground plane part of the antenna by the way)
https://www.hamuniverse.com/vertbazooka.html
In many cases it is only an illusion that it is just a stick. An antenna on your car is using the car body and frame as one side of a dipole.
It is very complicated and few people really understand it. Take a look at this design. Part of the shield of coax is folded back over. Only the folded part of the shield acts like part of the dipole and only the extended center wire acts like antenna with the part inside the shield being feed line.
I made one and it is a great single band pack antenna that I can weave through the molle on my pack and it still beats a typical rubber duck on my HT. (A rubber duck on your HT is using you as the ground plane part of the antenna by the way)
https://www.hamuniverse.com/vertbazooka.html