He claims it will noticeably improve both transmit and receive by making a quarter-wave monopole into a makeshift dipole antenna system. Per his instructions you basically add a short wire to the ...

A so-called random wire antenna is an end fed antenna. One end goes straight into the rig, often with no feedline, and the other end in the air attached to something as high as you can find, as ...

Infrared Physics and Technology, v 51, n 6, October, 2008, p 495-504. Measurement of the Mutual Coherence Function of an Incoherent Infrared Field with a Gold Nano-wire Dipole Antenna Array. C.