That sounds ok for where you live but not good for us here , I am the only person local that has the room to put an antenna over a reasonably large groundplane, it would not see over the obstructions.
interesting article, are these guys partly responsible for mininec ?,
The article also says this,
"The effective area of the receive monopole is one-fourth the effective area of the corre-sponding receive dipole.
Thus, if a monopole and a dipole are immersed in identical fields the dipole will deliver to a matched load four times the power as is available from a monopole",
I have a hard time with models over perfectly conducting infinite groundplanes that don't exist in the real world, that's what got us into the 5/8wave gain over a halfwave nonsense that advertisers use to bullshit money from your wallet,
is it fair to compare a 1/4wave monopole over a perfect infinite groundplane to a free space dipole ?
The results change when the dipole is measured at different heights above the same perfect groundplane rather than free space.
