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Topband: 160 meter vertical

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Subject: Topband: 160 meter vertical
From: k4kyv@hotmail.com (Donald Chester)
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 20:23:14 +0000
>
>My personal, theoretical votes are to put up 13 or 14 sections of Rohn 
>tower
>with insulated base and tune out the reactance at the radio end of the 
>coax,

Or tune the tower to 1:1 @ 1900 kc/s with a simple L network at the base of 
the tower.  Mine stays within less than 3:1 from 1800 to 2000.  To move 
anywwhere in the band, the only tuning adjustment I have to make is the 
coupling adjustment to the feedline at the transmitter end.

Don K4KYV

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