On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 7:13:59 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
...And you don't mind the approximately 50% loss (3.5 dB) in signal


It doesn't work that way Dan. With two antennas gathering energy from the same surroundings, the effect is primarily an alteration of pattern.

The greater concern might be polarization. PowerFlarm is a vertical polarization system. I'm not exactly sure what TW means by "stripe antenna in the canopy (laterally & slightly behind my head)". That doesn't sound vertical polarized; hopefully I'm just not visualizing that correctly.