Seems like ON4UN in his LowBand DXing book used an omega match for shunt fed
towers
where the natural reasonance was below the band: a series capacitor from the
feed line to the
feed point and a shunt capacitor across the feed point. I haven't tried it
yet. Values looked to be
in the 300pf range depending on how far out of the band to the point of
reasonance. (From
memory). There may be other schemes that work as well.
73, Larry W6NWS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Clements" <philc@texascellnet.com>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:55 PM
Subject: Topband: Resonating a 160 Meter Vertical
>I have a 160 meter vertical (ground plane) that now resonates on 1530 KHz.
>I
> want to put a capacitor at the feed point to raise resonance to 1830 KHz.
>
> Do I put the capacitor in series with the vertical radiator, in series
> with
> the radials, or across the feed point? Is one method any better than the
> others?
>
>
>
> (((73)))
>
> Phil. K5PC
>
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