John Smith I wrote:

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This page:
http://lists.contesting.com/_towerta.../msg00225.html

shows someone is "listening", however, somehow he missed the
"plano-helical coil", where each hairpin "turn" is serving as a small
capacitance ...

Also, the "plano-spiral top hat" seems to have been missed, essentially,
I picture a concentric wound "flat" coil which also seems to present
itself to being available to the "capacitive loading" effect. I have
simply taken a flat sheet of 1/16 aluminum and cut a continuous spiral
to create one to experiment with ...

Geesh, I would trade a few hours work for just a good pic of this
antenna, or at least a better description! Save a LOT of experimental
work on this end ...

And, then, there is that nagging mention about some sort of loading
device in the center ... oh well, where is that hacksaw?

JS