A bit more detail:
The tower is welded directly to the steel superstructure of the building
(which SHOULD be grounded if I am not mistaken)
73
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: k4oj [mailto:k4oj@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:22 PM
To: Ken Cechura
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Shunt feeding tower
Someone correct me if I am wrong here but if the antenna is on the roof
you will not have a ground to work against - isn't that the key to a
successful vertical?
K4OJ
Ken Cechura wrote:
>
>We at W0EEE have a 50 foot tower on top of a building on campus... One
>of our alumni suggested (and we have been considering) shunt feeding
>our tower for 40 and 80... We will obvoiusly be using an antenna
>tuner, but what is all required to shunt feed a tower? It's a 50 foot
>tower.... It has guy wires and such.... Help?
>
>Thanks
>KEn
>
> Kenneth R. Cechura, KC9UMR
> University of Missouri-Rolla
> Department Of Electrical Engineering
> President, 2002, W0EEE, UMR ARC
> email: kcechura@umr.edu
>
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