Andy,

I decided to go with a bigger ground plane and followed your
suggestion.

There is now a patio on top of my RV g. It's a little top heavy (a
hot tub and 5-burner grill will do that), but wtf, there will be
killer stargazing at Parowan, where applicants outnumber the 18M
nationals 42 to 1, 182 days out.

~tuno (really ... not counting the days)