Richard Harrison wrote:
Cecil, W5DXP wrote:
"However, the side that believes that a coil replaces all of the missing
antenna degrees is wrong."

It certainly can!
It radiated very well without any stinger or mast.

My statement assumed a stinger attached to the coil.
Of course, at the self-resonant frequency a coil is
100% antenna and vice versa.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com