- 1. Topband: Detuning towers and K9AY loops (score: 1)
- Author: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:46:26 -0500
- In general you want a modest length of drop wire, something that uses a fairly large capacitor for tuning. The drop wire connects someplace above the point where the system ties to the tower. That k
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00141.html (8,339 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Detuning towers and K9AY loops (score: 1)
- Author: aa4nu@ix.netcom.com (Billy Cox)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:09:32 -0600
- <snip> ON4UN's book shows using a MFJ-931 "ground tuner" to do the above ... Anyone used that unit? Results? (ah ... yet another project ...) TU! 73 Billy AA4NU
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00145.html (7,901 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Detuning towers and K9AY loops (score: 1)
- Author: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:36:34 -0500
- Any tuner that will hit the correct reactance will do that Billy, as well as any length of coax that you cut to the correct length. When I use my four-square, I detune the tower by open circuiting a
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00146.html (7,958 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Detuning towers and K9AY loops (score: 1)
- Author: w5ps@airmail.net (Peter Sears)
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:34:21 -0500
- Billy, to detune my tower from my 80 and 160m 4 squares I put a drop wire from the 60' point on the tower to ground but through the MFJ-931 artificial ground tuner first then to ground. I would put R
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00147.html (6,579 bytes)
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