'Doc you are not giving yourself any credit as usual, sorta.
My idea did not really change anything (materials) that LS was using. I did mention the PVC however. The problem he saw and did not understand, that probably stimulated his question, was what I meant when I said "...you should know that."
I did not mean we had to read his mind. He was thinking "problem" while saying at the same time everything was good. That does not jive. He did not see or suspect the obvious, and I think you should have---just based on what he showed us and your understanding.
You say it will work, and that begs the question. It will work of course, but work just about as badly as you could make it. He said it worked quite well, so ask yourself---why did he think he needed to fiddle with it all to find out the SWR went up? If it is good, why does he feel the need to fix it? We can't read his mind of course, but we should be able to make some conslusions about what folks say, don't say, or the way they say it.
Now LS is talking about co-phasing with another antenna and in the same breath almost he is saying in his nice little video walk-around: "...that I can't even get this thing to work."
And again a little later after some more changes he is saying the following, while the antenna remains basically on the ground:
He will not overcome his biggest problem until he raised this antenna to at least 8' to the tip end of the ground radials or puts down many more radials. Mother Earth is taking all of his signal.
He needs some steady direction, not a lot of talk about how to co-phase. He will have to tell us what he is really thinking, but right now he needs a little better understanding and once he gets that antenna right he won't have to guess or wonder about how good or bad it is working, he will be amazed to compare it to what he currently is using.
Lumpy Snake is a bright young man and he will figure it all out sooner or later.
