In practice, I have not experienced this problem. A few caveats, though:
-- my shunt feed is on 160, and my top-most yagi is for 40 meters. That
combination is fairly rare but not unheard of here.
-- I run bandpass filters on both radios, and only run 200 watts maximum on
160.
-- I run a simple RX protector in the receiving antenna loop on each
transceiver, which uses a small pilot lamp as an indicator of RF (in or out
of band) as well as a fuse. I have never seen it light when both bandpass
filters are in the circuit, on any band combination.
73, Pete N4ZR
At 02:26 PM 12/26/2007, Clive Whelan wrote:
>Well actually let's say any kind of tower vertical .
>
>I'm conscious of the fact that when feeding a tower as a vertical in
>SO2R configuration, that the Yagi atop the tower looks very much like a
>high voltage point and can potentially feed back to the HF transceiver
>causing front end receiver damage.
>
>
>However, I am not aware that this is a problem in practice, and indeed
>two UK users report no problems when running a shunt fed tower on 160m,
>whilst simultaneously listening on HF on another receiver connected to
>the yagi. I would nevertheless be in interested to hear from users here
>with practical experience thereof. Should I be concerned?
>
>
>73
>
>
>
>Clive
>GW3NJW
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