How does radiation resistance of a base-fed whip antenna change below its resonant frequency?
Radiation resistance increases
Radiation resistance decreases✓Bonne réponse
Radiation resistance becomes imaginary
Radiation resistance does not depend on frequency
Explication
Radiation resistance of a short vertical grows roughly with the square of its height expressed in wavelengths. Below resonance the whip is electrically shorter, so its radiation resistance falls; it remains a real quantity, while the reactive part of the feed point impedance becomes capacitive.