Topband: Feeding vertical

[Dennis OConnor]

Forget the hardline - unless it is really handy and you have the right fittings , etc... I am assuming an insulated base tower... Run some RG-8 out to the tower... Cobble up an L-match and see if it will tune...
The tower is possibly too tall to be good on 160 (you didn't say the height), but maybe not.. Anything taller than half wave is going to have high angle lobes...  It will be noisy on receive, try a low dipole (head high) or loop for receive... A beverage will not work over the radials..
Let us know, we all dream of a big installation like that...  If the towers are too tall then elevated feed/radials can be hung off the tower(s) to correct that... Or sloping dipole using the tower as a reflector....Or a cat line between the towers to hang a phased vertical from,etc... Fun problems to have!

denny / k8do

 
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