> It will undoubtedly work even better when you add a
 > coax balun between the legs and the coax.
Not necesarily.  I've tried baluns and all I ever found was that they tend to 
make the antenna inefficient.
Had a 1:1 balun on a 40m antenna on time, and while signals were there, and 
reports were mediocre, I pulled the balun off (commercially made job), hooked 
up the dipole as described (one leg to center of SO-239, other to ground) 
stretched 'em out, and enjoyed a 10db INCREASE in sent/recieved signals.
Took the balun back to where I got it, they checked it out - it's supposedly 
good.  Told 'em, "Good, you can sell it to someone else - I just want my 
money back!"
Got it, too!
   73 = Best Regards
   -Jeff KA5THB
   ka5thb@bigfoot.com
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