One of my plans for this summer is to shunt feed my tower for 160 -- so
this thread is of interest, though the crankup situation is different from
mine. This note is just to suggest that everyone who's interested have a
look at the section on shunt feeding in the second edition of ON4UN's
low-band book. I found the discussions of estimating the effect of top
loading, the relationship between electrical height and tap point for the
shunt feed, and the discussion of SWR bandwidth effects all very useful.
73, Pete N4ZR
Loud is good
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