Rich,
Thanks for your reply; very helpful!
Something similar to your shunt feeding method is what I have had in mind.
Since my tower is a crankup (55 ft topped by about 22 ft of mast+antennas),
I do have some misgivings about managing the wire running parallel to the
tower, in the scenario
Erik,
I've been feeding K3 RF to my house bracketed, 75 ft Rohn 25 tower for years
with great success on 160 Meters. The tower is topped with HF and VHF yagis
which act as a capacitive top hat. The 50 Ohm coax feedline is connected to a
tap on the coil of a parallel tuned circuit. The top of
, February 28, 2017 11:09 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80
I use two of the top guy wires as an inverted vee. There are insulators
near the top of the guys and about 50 feet or so down. The vee is brought
to resonance on 80 meters
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Using your tower as a vertical - 160 or 80
I use two of the top guy wires as an inverted vee
I use two of the top guy wires as an inverted vee. There are insulators
near the top of the guys and about 50 feet or so down. The vee is
brought to resonance on 80 meters with a center-tapped loading coil,
which also acts as a balun. The best match was with the coax tapped
right about at
Years ago, after putting up a heavy-duty crank-up tower with several
antennas on a tall mast at the top, I was interested in loading up the whole
metal tree for 160 and/or 80. However, I didn't like the prospect of
transmitted power getting back into the shack via the existing feedlines,
causing
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