"Sal M. O'Nella" wrote in
:

Your question, "Is this ok?" will be answered Yes by me.

Ok. Any thoughts on the capacitance if I lay insulation into the kite reel
and leave spare antenna wire on it and ground the bulk of the reel? I'm
guessing it's not critical but I wouldn't want to mess up the tuning
frequency. A bit of lost signal I can manage.