Richard Clark wrote:
If Cecil every gets over this intellectual
pebble in the path, please quote it so that I can see how much strain
that ascent took.

What you don't seem to realize is that the loaded
antenna can be assumed to be lossless in free space
with a 4-wire radial ground plane and the E-fields
and H-fields are within 10% of their real-world
values, i.e. you are complaining about relatively
small secondary effects.
--
73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com