- 1. Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Rudy Bakalov <r_bakalov@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Hello, I currently have a 90' grounded tower with a 6 el tribander on a mast at around 105' and a 4 el 40m yagi at 90'. I was wondering what you guys would recommend for building my first 160m TX an
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00054.html (7,128 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:48:20 -0400
- Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00058.html (7,926 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:13 -0400
- A 48 foot pole on 160 without any top loading will result in low feed point impedence and low efficiency even with a good silver plated loading coil. It still may be better for DX than a low dipole.
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00070.html (8,900 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Julius Fazekas <phriendly1@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:59:49 -0700 (PDT)
- I do have a 4 element Steppir on it, but without modification, the elements won't add to the top loading, only the boom. Still, it's better than nothing :o) If I shunt feed it on 160, I possibly coul
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00072.html (10,345 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:51:00 +1200
- Hi Julius, The SteppIR is not difficult to modify so that all of the elements act as top loading. I did that to my antenna in 2005, and there is an old file on the SteppIR Yahoo group showing how I d
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00074.html (7,704 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Shunt-fed tower vs. T-vertical (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:34:51 -0700
- There are 10-32 nuts that hold down the "brushes". There is enough extra thread to get a spade lug and a nylok nut on top of each existing nut (don't unscrew the existing nuts and screw up the brushe
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00078.html (8,662 bytes)
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