Topband: Feeding a Cell Tower for 160?

[Tree]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Kyle Chavis wrote:

> I have several cellular sites that I maintain and was wondering what would
> be the easiest way to shunt feed or some other means to feed a tower for
> 160. The two sites I'm thinking about are in large fields, one is a guyed
> 400' Rohn 80 with large cellular antennas on tops and several microwaves
> dishes top to bottom, the other a 300 free standing 2 sets of cellular
> arrays and 2 microwaves dishes. Climbing is an option but prefer not to.
> Each tower has extensive grounding. Any suggestions?

These towers are really too tall to do any kind of shunt feeding.  If you
did manage to load them, all of your energy will likely be going straight
up.

Half wave sloping dipoles - off in several key directions - would be simple
to put up and should perform very well.

73 Tree N6TR
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