Topband: Shunt-Fed tower how-to Video

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Steve,

This is an excellent tutorial. Thanks for not only sharing but taking 
the time to produce it as well.

73 Joel W5ZN


On 2019-04-24 20:03, VE6WZ_Steve wrote:
> This week I added a second gamma-wire to my shunt fed tower for 160m
> in order to lower the reactance and therefore lower the voltage across
> my matching network.  This winter I was having some flash-over
> problems.
> 
> While doing this work I decided to make a video that explains the
> method for finding the 50 Ohm point on a tower, and the effect that
> wire diameter has on the SWR bandwidth and reactance at the feedpoint.
>  I show how I use both the AIM-4170b and the AR 55 zoom analyzers.
> 
> I wanted to post the link to the video here on the reflector because
> over the years there have been a few questions about how to shunt-feed
> a tower, and this might answer some practical questions about how to
> go about it.  Maybe someone has a summer project in mind to turn their
> tower into a TX antenna?
> 
> https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM <https://youtu.be/cHlc5MTGTFM>
> 
> 73, de steve ve6wz.
> 
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