[TowerTalk] shunt fed tower

[Tom Hix W4TH]

I need some opinions on whether or not it would be worth fooling with
attempting to shunt feed my 60ft tower. The overall length to the top of
the mast is 67 ft. I have a 4 element tribander and a 15 element 215 wb
boomer 2 meter antenna on the tower. I have 3 sets of guy wires one at
25 one at 40 and one at about 58 ft. I don't really know that much about
the requirements for shunt feeding as related to guy wires, but my guy
system is a little odd. I am a handicapped person, and I couldn't get
out to hunt any good metal post to use as guy post, so I finally just
called my local lumber yard and had three 6x6 treated post delivered and
had them concreted in, so that is my guy arrangement, no insulators,
just full run guy wires straight to the wooden post. I don't know how
that would affect the system, but I would imagine I would have to break
the guy wires with insulators. 
I know that is a terribly short vertical on 160, but it seems to me I
read an article several years ago about shunt feeding towers as short as
50ft for 160 meters.
Do any of you have a short shunt fed tower, and if so are you pleased
with it?
Any and all comments appreciated.
73
Tom
W4TH

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