So I assume, using your example then, my whole setup (mast pipe, tower and guy lines) must have radiated being that the coax was inside the 25' mast pipe? Yes, the mast pipe was bent at a 90 at the top which went out to the antenna and the coax was inside the whole way... (unless you are now thinking the pipe acted as the balun or do what ferrite beads would accomplish?)
Not to mention that at the time I had multiple lengths of coax (all Belden 9913) that I tried individually and found that every piece was good BUT the one that I "tuned" for this antenna just so happened to make my receive noticeably better??.. - and not to just my ear either.. Had three other helpers notice the same results...
One more less important thing to mention... I had baluns that I tried but nothing made the dip meter move the whole length of the coax with or without. So with that in mind I considered the balun a load, and where there is a load, there is a loss and so I didn't use one even knowing I had a balanced load connected to an unbalanced transmission line... Not to mention this but a very low SWR too!!!
One more even less interesting thing to mention is that the dreaded RF burn you would have normally experienced with a mic that has a grounded metal screen and RF on the outside of the coax never seemed to occur... Huh, I wonder why?
In hindsight I see that it just makes so much better sense to connect a tuned radio to a tuned antenna using an un-tuned wet noodle then... Since it doesn't really matter, especially if you use a balun or even a tuner with a balun...
Now I feel like getting high... Cuz this ****'s gettin' deep!!!
I guess I'll just have to go climb my tower and replace the light...