SHUNT FEED works fine with a grounded tower. That is what I used on 160m at one time and it worked very well.
A grounded tower is safer. 4K > I recommend not grounding the tower. Makes it harder > to load up. Find a good ceramic insulating base like > you're supposed to have, and the correct guy wire > insulators spaced to minimize interaction with the > radiating element, the tower. > > Here, you can see how we tried it the other way and I > just couldn't get the loading to set. > > http://wa3vjb.amham.com/pics/Garden.jpg > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb >
