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[TowerTalk] finding resonant frequency of a shunt-fed tower for 160

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Subject: [TowerTalk] finding resonant frequency of a shunt-fed tower for 160
From: SPELUNK.SUENO@prodigy.net (EUGENE SMAR)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:26:13 -0400
TT:

     I also read somewhere in the long-ago that if you planted iron filings,
you could grow a batch of 130-foot towers!  Wish I would have remembered
this earlier in the planting season.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Bullon <kc5ajx@hotmail.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] finding resonant frequency of a shunt-fed tower for
160


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>>From: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com>
>>To: "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@starband.net>,   "TowerTalk"
>><towertalk@contesting.com>
>>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] finding resonant frequency of a shunt-fed tower
>>for 160
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:31:52 -0400
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>>I modeled that with the following assumption: that I would ground the 20
>>meter ref and dir (only) to the boom which is grounded to the mast and
>>then to the tower . This places the voltage peak out at the end of the
>>longest and highest elements. That up 13 feet on a mast atop an 80 foot
>>Trylon self standing tower models to a resonant frequency around 1.7
>>MHz. I suspect in practice it will be lower than that, say ~1.6 MHz.
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>>Based upon that I'm going to bury a lot of copper around the Trylon,
>>load it on 160 and deal with what crops  up.
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>>Guy Olinger
>>Apex, NC, USA
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>Guy
>I have buried lots of copper around here but I have never gotten a crop
from
>it.
>I think there is a guy on here that claims to grow aluminum though. Can't
>get that stuff to grow here either :)
>73
>Rick
>KC5AJX
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