Topband: Resonating a 160 Meter Vertical

[Larry]

Seems like ON4UN in his LowBand DXing book used an omega match for shunt fed 
towers
where the natural reasonance was below the band: a series capacitor from the 
feed line to the
feed point and a shunt capacitor across the feed point. I haven't tried it 
yet. Values looked to be
in the 300pf range depending on how far out of the band to the point of 
reasonance. (From
memory). There may be other schemes that work as well.

73, Larry  W6NWS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Clements" <philc at texascellnet.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:55 PM
Subject: Topband: Resonating a 160 Meter Vertical


>I have a 160 meter vertical (ground plane) that now resonates on 1530 KHz. 
>I
> want to put a capacitor at the feed point to raise resonance to 1830 KHz.
>
> Do I put the capacitor in series with the vertical radiator, in series 
> with
> the radials, or across the feed point? Is one method any better than the
> others?
>
>
>
> (((73)))
>
> Phil. K5PC
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