Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:03:04 -0600
Hi, I have never done this but am willing to try to shunt-feed my 72-foot 3-section motorized crankup tower to try to get on 160M. I was told by someone that I would have trouble doing this if my tow
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:58:47 -0600
Hi, I'm starting work on a shunt-fed tower for 160M. I have a four section motorized crank-up from US Towers. I also have a Yaesu 2800 rotor. I have 2 questions: 1) are there precautions I should tak
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:52:48 -0600
Hi, I'm working on a shunt-fed tower for 160M. I'm routing the coax inside the center of my crank-up tower. Do I need to ground the coax shield to the tower at the top and bottom of the tower? I reca
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:34:01 -0600
Hi, I am in the process of putting down 48 radials (approx 40M length each). Some are going to be shorter on one side. To the west my property line is about 32-33M away where I have a chain link fenc
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:48:00 -0600
Hi, I'm working on a shunt-fed tower for 160M. Getting close - all radials installed etc. I think I have this project under control but won't know for a week or so for sure how it will work. I've got
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:31:12 -0600
Hi, I just finished putting down 56 radials for a 160M shunt-fed tower I'm working on. Now I know why I put this off so long. One question I have - I have an 18" square copper plate with holes drille
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:49:06 -0600
Hi, I have an 18"x18" square copper plate. I am going to connect copper grounding lugs to this plate along the outer perimeter. I have drilled and tapped holes in the copper plate to hold the groundi
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:20:25 -0600
Hi, I've been working on a 160M shunt-fed tower. Coming along nicely so far. Hope to be tuning this week. Now, what to do for 160/80M receive antenna? I have about 1 acre of ground with tower about 7
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:41:16 -0600
Hi again, I have had suggested that I connect my ground radials for my 160M tower shunt-fed antenna to the chain link fence on the west end of my property. This is about 65 feet away from the tower a
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:35:34 -0600
Hi, I have my shunt-fed tower for 160M about ready to tune. I have an Omega match (two vacuum variable capacitors) inside a pelican case with stepper motors to allow remote tuning. I'm using insulate
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:48:18 -0600
Hi, I'm finally there - ready to tune my 160M shunt fed tower antenna. I have an Omega match using a 7-1000 pF cap for the series capacitor and 5-500 pF for the parallel capacitor. I have my tower at
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:59:57 -0600
Hi, I finally finished my 160M shunt-fed tower antenna and it works superbly. Lots of work but I think it will be worth it. I want to thank all those that gave me suggestions for this antenna. My nex
Author: "Richard W. Harris" <Richard_Harris@byu.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:19:21 -0700
Hi, A simple question on station grounding. I have a copper wall plate for common grounding of all of my station equipment. I have 2" wide copper strap to connect each piece of gear to the copper pan