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what are you meaning by pigtail eddie?, its not a term we use over here,

i looked online and the images are patch leads with various connectors which i can only imagine causing impedance discontinuities and internal reflections,


the cone taper seems to me a method of increasing end spacing without proportionally increasing the transmission-line mode impedance.