I've done exactly what Herb suggested: hung a sloper for 80M off the
side of my 160M shunt-fed tower. Neither antenna knows the other is there
and both work pretty well - meaning I'm satisfied with what I get out of
them.
Interesting. I have tried verticals, slopers, inverted V's and other
80 meter antennas on or near my 160 meter tower with little success.
The impedance of any such antenna seems to be severely altered by
the nearby tower. I suspect it depends on the electrical length of
the tower. Mine is close to an electrical half wave on 80 - 100 feet
of Rohn 25 with a 7 element 6 meter yagi, approximately 30 foot
boom sitting at 103 feet.
At one point in time the 160 meter shunt feed could be made to
provide an excellent match on 80 simply by changing the series
capacitance. However, after I cut down several nearby trees that no
longer works.
73,
Paul N1BUG
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