Antennas have always been black magic for me, and this article blew my mind with the "capacitor you pull apart". Thank you for posting this article, this is fantastic.
Not an RF engineer. But I mess with radio's for a living.
Most of the time when people try to explain antenna's they start talking resonance. Which really describes a 'good' antenna.
What an antenna does is create a alternating magnetic field with a alternating electric field 90 degress out of phase with each other. Blah blah blah quantum electrodynamics blah blah blah radiates photons.
Resonance means the antenna stores energy as resonance. That increases the electric and magnetic fields making the antenna radiate more efficiently. Some antenna's are very wide band and 'flat' and used for cough cough military cough cough and other applications.
