It certainly would lower the resistance, but broadening the bandwidthmight only be noticcable on 10 or 12.

For the lower bands it would hardly be noticable.

The thunderbugle design of the OCF had hoops of 3 to 6 feet to broadband the OCF.... 6 feeet gave more broadbanding of course.


I feed mine with a 1.5 KW 1:6 balun and a 1:1 directly after the 1:6 to keep H.F from the coax if you want to feed it with coax.

If you use ladderline, watch the length, depending on how high etc, you can tinker with the length of the feederline to get the sweetspots right.
A good tuner does the rest, ( LL tuner)