Hey Randy, I was thinking the same thing as to a weakness/stress at that point and thought maybe some kind of support-bracket.
Any chance you can post a photo of your support bracket? If not, no biggie just pleased to read here you mentioned pretty well what I was thinking on.
I haven't done this yet (set up) - however your mention of safer flying (signal strength) with this confirms for me this is the way to go.
Thanks.