Hi all, I'm considering shunt feeding my tower for 160. Would appreciate details from those with similar setups who have done it successfully. Tower is 76 ft of Rohn 45 with a C31XR at 75 ft and a Ma
Barry: I've been using my shunt-fed 64-foot Trylon on 160M since 2002 and it works amazingly well for me. About 5-10 dB better on TX and RX than my previous inverted-L. I posted several times here on
I shunt feed a US Tower HDX55 with a TH7 at 57 ft and a Cushcraft XM240 at 70 ft. It works quite nicely. I also shorted my parasitic elements to the boom in a similar manner to Gene. I built a 12v re
Barry, Ive built a few shunt feeds over the years and studied the BC band ways of doing it. Look at the shunt arm as a gamma rod on a yagi. It has to be of some diameter and spacing ratio relationshi
Barry, You might consider using 3/8" cu tubing as the gamma arm. I find it survives the WX better than wire especially in the winter winds. It has better BW and it has been up for several years w/o p
In his book, "DXing on the Edge", Jeff K1ZM shows a neat way to construct a three-wire shunt feed cage. Since I have a seperate 80/160 vertical, I haven't tried Jeff's method. If I ever shunt feed my