Well, Howard, I'll keep asking around, and will wait for feedback from 
others on this.

The guy who helped me put the Windom up this way swears by it;  he says it's 
the old traditional Windom that used to be built all the time way back in 
the mid 1900's.

Supposedly it's made according to the original design from the designer 
himself.

Like I said, the thing tunes with the Ts480 auto-tuner on all bands from 80 
through 10, except for 30 meters, but I was surprised on some of the SWR 
readings I got on 40 and 20.

I don't know how forgiving the TS480 auto-tuner is, but I have to believe 
with the SWR's I'm seeing, the antenna is not doing as well as I'd like.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: windom question


>I think you are doing fine with that windom, but I don't have one myself.
> With a coax fed antenna, I would be concerned to.  I never heard of 
> feeding
> a windom that way.  If you had the balon at the bottom and open wire
> feedline going up no problem.
>