Unipole antenna

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Monopole antenna

An open antenna acting as one part of a dipole whose other part is represented by its electrical image in the earth or an effective ground plane. In current usage the term is generally restricted to a straight antenna about a quarter-wave long and fed at the end nearer the




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)