Dave,

Can I come back to a point you made earlier? You wrote.......
- Add a choke balun where the coax reaches the tuner (just take 8-10'
of the coax, and wind it into a loop 8-10" in diameter and use
tiewraps to hold it together). This will help maintain balance
between the two sides of the dipole.

There is not enough supplied Coax available to make the choke balun and
still reach my transciever. There are no markings on the cable supplied by
Icom but it looks like they use RG8U. I haven't purchased cable in many
years and seem to remember that insulation and shielding varies by
manufacturer. I'll look for maximum shielding but wonder whether foam
insulation is OK for the choke balun?

Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember seeing something about the cons
of foam insulated coax. Am I getting paranoid?

Myron