Phil:
If it weren't for the open space all around your tower, I would have sworn
that your pix were of my installation. (I have lots of trees in my back yard.)
I even use the same kind of plastic container for my air-variable cap.
Rich:
Do what Phil did and you should be on Topband in no time. GL es HNY.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
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From: kb9cry@comcast.net (Phil Camera)
> I do close to the same as Gene does for my Trylon 72 ft tower. I use a cage
> of
> three wires held out about 2 ft from the tower with PVC pipe. See piks at
> link
> below. They terminate about 35 ft above ground and I use an Omega match to
> match them (all Vac variavble now rather than that first attempt shown in the
> piks) Also I have a KT34XA up top and have since laid down 60 132 foot
> radials
> around the base. I have no trouble feeding a KW into the system. I have a
> decent match for about 1/2 of the 160M band. It works like a champ! Phil
> KB9CRY
>
>
>
> http://nidxa.org/kb9cry_shunt_fed_tower.htm
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