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Re: Topband: Shunt fed tower plus Marconi vertical phasing on 160and80?

To: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>, "Paul Staupe" <pstaupe@qwest.net>, "topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Shunt fed tower plus Marconi vertical phasing on 160and80?
From: "ZR" <zr@jeremy.mv.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 21:06:28 -0400
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It is more "cookie cutter" to use series fed quarter wave elements with current feed (95% of people still do that wrong), but if you have a little patience and don't mind experimentation, you could certainly make it work. I phased dissimilar elements many times over the years, with the grossest mismatch a "T" phased against a shunt fed tower. All it takes is parts and patience. :-)

73 Tom


Since it is very hard to lose gain with any halfway decent 2 vertical system and many also use directive receiving antennas there is no real need to build the best phasing network. In those cases a basic coax phasing network works as well as spending gobs of money and/or dumping power in a dummy load.

Carl
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