Today, I learned about whole wave dipole antennas and their impedance problem; details I suspected about the novel The Natural; the nicest radio club I've come across so far, the North American QRP CW Club Full-wave dipoles First, lets talk about full-wave dipole antennas. Spoiler, do not run out and build one without reading to the end, I almost did. It turns out that while the things offer some gain, they have this impedance issue which is... i nfinite impedance at the feedpoint !!! In other words, oh my goodness will your power reflect back into your transmitter without a matching network. Why was I reading about the cursed things? Well, that takes us to this ARRL article on QRP (From April 1984 QST, p 52). The article suggested that what I really wanted was a full wave dipole: You know? If I had the resources to build an antenna tower, I'd probably also have resources and patience to build the impedance matching network so really it's a matter of resources that inf...