Reg Edwards wrote:
This suggests that other folks are correct in asserting that

the mast, and the outside of the feedline are doing a lot of the
radiating.

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What's wrong with radiation from the feedline? It's just as useful as
radiation from elsewhere.



If your interest is to spray your rf all over the place then a radiating
feedline is really FB.

If you have a $1500 tower, a $600 rotator, a $800 beam, a $3000
amplifier all connected to a $3000 transceiver, then you really want to
steer your RF in a controlled direction. Under these conditions a
radiating feedline destroys the nature of the antenna pattern and you're
not getting what you paid for.