- 1. Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Sarkisian, KG8CO" <cqkg8co@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:18:30 -0800 (PST)
- I have 125 ft of Rohn 45 with a 4 element KLM 40 meter beam on top. 1. At what height would you attach the top of the gamma match? 2. How far away would you place the gamma match away from the tower.
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00065.html (7,161 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:56:36 -0800
- This might not be the answer you are hoping for - but I think your tower is too long electrically to work well on 160. I have never heard of someone having a tower that high that really worked well.
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00071.html (7,867 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:11:28 -0800
- Don't tell K5RC (W7RN) that. His new 160 transmit antenna (about a year) is a quarter wave, and he is BIG on 160. When we were lined up trying to run JA this morning, one JA who was doing a lot of sp
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00078.html (7,745 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:01:43 -0700
- My 160 ant for 16 years til 2004 was a 160 ft R45 tower with 15 ft mast and several antennas. At the top was a 52 ft boom homebrew 20. It worked gangbusters on 160. However. It was fed at 32 ft AGL a
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00079.html (8,163 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:07:42 -0500
- A little related experience, maybe. My tower is 97 feet, with two tribanders and a shorty-forty on it, plus a 4-dipole lazy vee array for 80M which is fed by feedlines that enter the tower at about t
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00086.html (8,727 bytes)
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