[TowerTalk] Shunt feeding and stacked antennas

Fred Hopengarten k1vr@juno.com
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:31:13 EDT


From:
Fred Hopengarten  K1VR               781/259-0088
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Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:50:24 -0700 henry <henry@pacinfo.com> writes:
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>How does all this aluminum affect the shunt feeding stuff?

K1VR:  In my experience, for 160 m, lots of aluminum had two effects:

*	I had to bring the gamma rod in close to the tower, and out
again, in order to get past a TH6DXX on a swinging gate side-mount.

*	I had to put the tap up at 88' on a 100 foot tower.

-- Fred K1VR


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