Time permitting, I'll wind some coax on a 20-ft 2.5-in-dia stick of munimula this weekend, test it, and post results. I'll guess ahead of time that the L and distributed-C of the braid and to the boom would cause it to act as a sorta-trap, cuz the boom is presumably too long to act as a shorted turn. ICBW tho ;o) 73, Dave, N3HE