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Guilty as charged. :(  Back in the day, I simply attached my A/P to a Radio Shack telescoping mast and began using it with zero thought given to isolation, grounding, CMC, or anything else other than SWR. It worked beautifully, but am wondering what performance would have been if I'd done everything right. o_O