To assume a short-circuited, sideways protuding stub line, intended to
replace a loading coil, will give the same results as the coil it replaces
is unbelievable STUPIDITY.

EZNEC will quite correctly treat the stub line as an essential part of the
radiating system, itself much longer than the overall height of the short
vertical antenna it is supposed to be loading.

In fact, the length of wire in the stub line needed to resonate the antenna,
plus the height of the antenna, will be of the same order as a full size
quarter-wave vertical.

Roy, you are wasting your time trying to educate such baffle-gabbing old
wives. I make this comment because you are a much too polite gentleman
(approaching the English variety) to send them packing yourself with tails
between their legs. And I've just finished a glass of South African red.

Yelp, yelp! Can you hear them fading into the distance? ;o) ;o) ;o)
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Reg.