Topband: Detuning towers

[Pete Smith]

At 10:44 AM 1/20/03 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote:
>After another long conversation about this last night, I thought I'd add a
>quick page on the topic of detuning towers.
>
>http://www.w8ji.com/detuning_towers.htm
>

Is there a rule of thumb on how far away from a tower a receiving antenna 
needs to be, to avoid the need to detune it?  I am contemplating a small 
160m ving antenna that will be close to 300 feet from my 100' tower with 
stacked tribanders and a 40m yagi.  The receiving antenna will not be 
looking straight at the tower, but it will probably be within the 3-dB 
bandwidth.  Probably the answer is build it and see, but I thought I'd at 
least ask.


73, Pete N4ZR
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