Has anyone used a stepper antennas mounted on a shunt feed tower? What kind of experiences have you had? 73...Don...W4TO _______________________________________________ ______________________________
Hi Don, I have a MonstIR on top of my 80' Rohn 45 that is shunt fed for 160M. I find that the band the MonstIR is set for has a big impact on 160M resonance. It seems to "work" the best with the Mons
Has anyone used a stepper antennas mounted on a shunt feed tower? What kind of experiences have you had? 73...Don...W4TO __Don, I have had good results with a two stack of 4 element SteppIR's. I find
I have a related question: How close to the tower can the shunt wire be? I'm putting up a 3-stack of 4-el SteppIRs on TIC rings (the top one is up already.) A shunt feed wire would have to be threade
I have a SteppIR 3 element on top of my 77 ft Heights tower that I excite via a 80m 1/2 sloper. I grounded the elements to the boom when I moved to new QTH and re-installed yagi. The tuning of the St
Why not run the shunt wire inside the tower? Has anyone tried that? At the very least, you could get past the TIC rings by going inside the tower at that point only and then return to the outside aft
Dick: Most sources I've read regarding shunt-fed towers recommend a wider, rather than closer, spacing of the shunt wire from the tower. Keeping your wire away from the tower then threading between t
Howard, That is very interesting as I would have thought that you would want to use the Yagi as a capacity hat, and need to have the elements out vice retracted. Course if your tower is tall enough f
I had a 160' tower with 5 TIC rings. For 160m I used a 1/4 wl wire vertical hung from one of the guy wires. It worked well and I avoided any RF problems to the rotators which can occur with shunt fee