[RadioHamGuy] posted an interesting video on adding a counterpoise antenna wire to an HT. He claims it will noticeably improve both transmit and receive by making a quarter-wave monopole into a ...

Just as the electrons move in the wire, they move in the transmitter's antenna. And just as an electromagnetic field is created around the wire, a field is created around the antenna. But there is ...

The basic configuration is quarter wave, linear loaded (folded), vertical antenna. A quarter wave length radiator wire runs up a fibreglass pole, folds over the top, and comes back down ...