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I ask, "Does it?"

If so, then, with respect to it offering the equivalent of additional physical length in electrical length, would it not then present increased gain in performance? That's all the ad said, and nothing about antenna gain in db's.


Nothing in the ad paragraph said the ball added audio. Furthermore, one may call his antenna, and its components, anything he wants. There are Penetrators, which penetrate nothing, there are Punishers, which punish nothing, and there's a Thunderpole, which is more a pole than thunder, none of which by their names suggest themselves to be more than they are, misnomers that pass for names.


You'll need more than this to make a reasonable case for the argument.

Audio balls, golf balls, basketballs, football, and certainly not beach balls increase audio, but decently optimized antennas do help one to hear more than poorly optimized  antennas, and who cares if they are called Gain Masters, I10k's, Imax2000's, or A99's? It's a sales gimmick that simply implies an advantage to using this antenna exactly as the glorified names of countless other products have.


I find the name AUDIO BALL, appropriate. Radio is first of all about audio, who and what you hear, and who or what hears you. The implication that one can effectively use this antenna with its audio ball to transmit and receive audio seems rather appropriate.


Gotta do better than pick on a silly name for a ball on the end of an antenna.