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Hi Paul,

I think you have a very good situation there with your 130 ft tower and tall trees.I should not atempt to feed the tower ,but use it as a support for an "L" shaped ant. with one or more top load wires to the trees.If you keep the vert part away from the tower as much as possible it will only represent a relatively low loss capacitor (make sure it is returned to the earthy end of the loading coil) The wires to the trees should be as long as possible and should not come closer than 6feet from the foliage. The trees are a greater threat than the tower.Best of luck,I look foreward to a big signal in the future. 73s Laurie.