Hiya...

I'm assembling all the fixings I need for a new antenna. Now that I'm
committed to an inverted L with my balun ONLY one foot away from the earthen
ground spike...

Given that the horizontal section of an inverted L antenna could work
directionally, would it be good to use two wires at the top of the vertical
section ??? This way you would have one horizontal wire running say north
to south and the second horizontal wire angled at 45 deg to run east and
west ???

Michael