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[Donald Chester]

>Sounds logical to me, but that would invalidate any
>advantage of using sloping vs. vertical terminations.
>
>I think Tom W8JI noted earlier that there is actually no advantage
>at all, and I was just curious to learn from your experience.

The advantage to the sloping terminations is mechanical.  The sloping wire 
can double as a guy wire to hold the end poles vertical, or it can eliminate 
two support poles, one at each end.  .

There is a lot of bogus data in that book.