"Bruce in Alaska" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Meindert Sprang" wrote:

These antennas are half-wave antennas and they don't need a
counterpoise.
Only a quarter-wave antenna needs one, to account for the other missing
quarterwave part, so to speak.

Meindert

Well, that is not actually true in most cases.

I see. My Shakespear is a 1/2 wave whip with a coil in the base.

If you actually take a
Shakespear Fiberglass VHF Antenna apart, you will find that they are
1/4 wave driven elements, with 1/4 wave of Ground Sleeve shoved up
the inside of a hollow fiberglass fishing pole and epoxed in place.

But doesn't this ground sleeve produce the "other end" of the dipole?

Meindert