[TowerTalk] Stub question

[EC1CT Fernando]

Hello all,
I recently aquired a quarter wave vertical for 80 meters. It´s a 33 ft aluminium mast with a capacity hat designed by EA5JK. It has such a kind of loading coil. Yesterday at the radio club someone told me to put a stub formed by 40 ft or so of coax line at the feedpoint. He said that would help me to prevent the static but this stub would put the antenna in shortcut as it would connect in any way the radial system with the copper core of the coax line to the radio. It doesn´t convince me at all. Just wondering if any of the low banders here have added any stub to their verticals and how you did it. Thanks a lot. 73s
BTW: lot of snow in norther spain today. Prop is as bad as the weather....
EC1CT Fernando
E-mail: ec1ct at ure.es