Bill Turner wrote:
It is designed to match a vertical whip which is not loaded itself,
and uses a lower value coil at the base and theoretically should
result in higher efficiency than the conventional loading method.

For those of us who don't have the 2004 ARRL Handbook,
could you describe the theory? If it is based on the
old wives' tale that the current through a loading coil
is constant, it is all wet.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com