This is why it is sometimes referred to as a monopole. There is one type of ground that needs a different name applied to it because everyone seems to have a different opinion of what it is or isn't, and that is Ground Plane! In fact, there is an alternate name which seemingly has disappeared from the amateur lexicon, and that is Image Plane.Ī quarter wave vertical antenna is nothing more than half a dipole. So it's no darn wonder neophyte amateurs (and a fair amount of old timers) get confused about which ground is which. Any one of these is certainly not any other.
We have the ground we walk on, hollowed ground, DC grounds, AC grounds, RF grounds, and grounds for divorce! We also have polo grounds, capital grounds, football grounds, common grounds, proving grounds, battle grounds, and even ground zero. Spanish gets a little fuzzier with the word Ground, but not nearly as much as English. The Spanish language has a whole bunch of words which mean hot, while English gropes around with about two or three.
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