Was the "Butterfly" antenna anything like a "Bow tie" antenna?

I have been using one for years on 10M

By the way the stick on Cell Phone antenna only cost 30 cents.
Is this what you refer to?

K7DUP

"Larry W4CSC" wrote
Many years ago, one of the bigtime CB magazines had an article about a
"Butterfly Antenna", supposedly some kind of magic DX antenna the
CBers could build that would really get out.

It was a joke, in the next issue the CB magazine told them so.
Because so many of them were so gullible and ignorant of basic antenna
science, thousands of Butterfly Antennas were built and put on towers
across the country. Resulting in massive subscription cancellations,
the magazine, dispite heavy apologies, went out of business!

Cellphone antennas are the new Butterfly Antennas of the 21st Century.



Larry W4CSC