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Re: Topband: Shunt-Fed tower how-to Video

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Subject: Re: Topband: Shunt-Fed tower how-to Video
From: Roger Cooke <roger@g3ldi.co.uk>
Reply-to: roger@g3ldi.co.uk
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:10:54 +0100
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Jut watched this video. It's given me added incentive to re-install my gamma wire again! It fell down last winter. so, that's another project, after re-ropi g my tower.

Very impressed with the presentation Steve.

Many thanks for making it.

I am the Prog Sec for the Norfolk ARC and wonder if you would be interested in giving a talk to our club members next year? I arrange a lot of these using Skype. We have quite a good set-up for that and have about 160 members. Wemeet on a Wednesday evening from 1930 until 2100. If you are willing, I will let you have a selection of dates to choose from.

73 de Roger, G3LDI.

On 25/04/2019 10:16, John Chappell G3XRJ wrote:

Steve,

That's an excellent video.
Both in the technique of shunt feeding and the overall video presentation which sets the bar.
Most impressive.
73

John G3XRJ
This week I added a second gamma-wire to my shunt fed tower for 160m in order to lower the reactance and therefore lower the voltage across my matching network.  This winter I was having some flash-over problems.

While doing this work I decided to make a video that explains the method for finding the 50 Ohm point on a tower, and the effect that wire diameter has on the SWR bandwidth and reactance at the feedpoint.  I show how I use both the AIM-4170b and the AR 55 zoom analyzers.

I wanted to post the link to the video here on the reflector because over the years there have been a few questions about how to shunt-feed a tower, and this might answer some practical questions about how to go about it.  Maybe someone has a summer project in mind to turn their tower into a TX antenna?

https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM <https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM>

73, de steve ve6wz.


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