[Towertalk] Shunt feeding tower

[Ken Cechura]

A bit more detail:

The tower is welded directly to the steel superstructure of the building
(which SHOULD be grounded if I am not mistaken)

73
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: k4oj [mailto:k4oj@tampabay.rr.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:22 PM
To: Ken Cechura
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Shunt feeding tower


Someone correct me if I am wrong here but if the antenna is on the roof 
you will not have a ground to work against - isn't that the key to a 
successful vertical?

K4OJ




Ken Cechura wrote:

>
>We at W0EEE have a 50 foot tower on top of a building on campus...  One

>of our alumni suggested (and we have been considering) shunt feeding 
>our tower for 40 and 80...  We will obvoiusly be using an antenna 
>tuner, but what is all required to shunt feed a tower?  It's a 50 foot 
>tower.... It has guy wires and such....  Help?
>
>Thanks
>KEn
>
>       Kenneth R. Cechura, KC9UMR 
>      University of Missouri-Rolla
>  Department Of Electrical Engineering  
>     President, 2002, W0EEE, UMR ARC
>        email: kcechura@umr.edu
> 
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