Ok, Donald so your idea is the only one that counts. If your idea about this antenna design were true, like you claim, it would be the hottest antenna on the market, but hardly anybody ever talks about their NV4K, and the idea would seem to scale nicely into other bands as well...and I have never heard of this design outside of 10-11 meters and your FM product of course.
You suggest that even Cebik would have considered this antenna to be a far superior design...but I find nothing in his body of work on the subject.
W8JI, has recently updated his article on "End-fed Vertical and J-Pole," and he demonstrates ideas using slanted up, slanted down, and horizontal radials on a J-Pole. He doesn't say much, but he did not make any claims to increased gain except where so noted and it wasn't much gain anyway. He also may have added this idea of slanted up radials to the J-Pole as a result of the eHam thread that Booty Monster posted and you mentioned above. If you recall he did comment in that thread at one point.
He did comment that this idea could be make coaxial by using a pipe in a similar configuration, but did not show an example and gave no further details.
He also says nothing about this radial idea creating a collinear effect that increases gain on the J-Pole.
Here is the link: http://www.w8ji.com/end-fed_vertical.htm
You are right about one thing using these Antenna Software design programs...if you don't get the antenna design right as to the physical design we know works, and consider the product limitations...no model will likely give good results. I noted about this in my remarks above...so you will possibly know why Eznec did not work for you in your efforts to model your S4 idea. I'll bet you did not consider any of those design ideas back then when you made Eznec models.
