Topband: Re: Making the bottom of my tower "disappear"

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Tom Rauch writes:

> When we tuned such systems for BC stations, we would see a *peak* in 
> the loop current through the detuning system at nearly the same point 
> where we saw a null in current beyond that connection point in the 
> structure we were detuning.

Very interesting...  and what you say makes sense.  The article I am
reading is in the 2nd edition of ON4UN's book - page 9-27.

> If your clamp-on meter was very very large and fit around the tower 
> and the detuning wire, you would see zero. In other words if you 
> installed an open sampling loop a few feet off the face of the tower 
> opposite the detuning wire, you would also see it read zero or near 
> zero while the current through the detuning system was maximum.

I can try the sampling loop and confirm that is all works out.

Will report back my results.

Thanks Tom.

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