Rich:
Your antenna is really a vertical (the feedline) with a horizontal
section on top that some regard as 'top loading'. There is no point in running
a
coax up to the wire. Just feed the one-wire feedline using the best ground you
can conjure as a vertical approximately equal to the feedline length.
The so-called end feed is an old myth that has been around forever. My
very first antenna was just that, and I always wondered what that second
feedline wire would do when it just abruptly ended, unterminated, at the
antenna
wire.
73
Eric von Valtier K8LV
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