Henry,
Not one of the list experts but you may enjoy seeing for your self what top
loading does. The program VERTLOAD is a good example. See the following:
http://www.btinternet.com/~g4fgq.regp/page3.html#S301";
I designed an antenna for 160m as follows
11m vertical wire
top loading coil 0.1m x 80mm x 35 turns)
top loading wire 22m
compare to an inverted-L in the ENDFEED program--much higher efficiency with
coil and top wire.
Hope this helps Alan KB7MBI
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