Topband: Need Info Re Tower Detuning

[Peter Sears]

W9zr@aol.com wrote:

> How important is it to tune the tower to make it look invisible on 160? 

Randy, I use my 130' tower to support my 160M and 80M 4 squares. I use
catenary ropes off the tower and the vertical wires drop from the ropes.
I detune the tower by placing a shunt arm at the 60' point on the tower
to ground. I have a LC network with a RF current meter in series with
the shunt arm to ground. I tune the LC network so that no current is
flowing when I pump RF into either 4 square. 

Peter
W5PS



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