Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
I made a PSK-31 contact with a friend while he was testing his rig into a dummy load so, yeah, I agree—you can get some RF to radiate off of pretty much anything. That doesn't make it a good antenna, however.

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Sort of like the "terminated tilted folded dipole" - which of course, works great for the military because with ALE nobody ain't got no time for antenna tuners or all that, and the huge losses are just overcome with mo powa.