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Subject: [TowerTalk] Shunt-Fed tower how-to Video
From: VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:04:24 -0600
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This week I added a second gamma-wire to my shunt fed tower for 160m in order 
to lower the reactance and therefore lower the voltage across my matching 
network.  This winter I was having some flash-over problems.

While doing this work I decided to make a video that explains the method for 
finding the 50 Ohm point on a tower, and the effect that wire diameter has on 
the SWR bandwidth and reactance at the feedpoint.  I show how I use both the 
AIM-4170b and the AR 55 zoom analyzers.

I wanted to post the link to the video here on the reflector because over the 
years there have been a few questions about how to shunt-feed a tower, and this 
might answer some practical questions about how to go about it.  Maybe someone 
has a summer project in mind to turn their tower into a TX antenna?

https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM <https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM>

73, de steve ve6wz.
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