[Towertalk] Shunt Feed Tower
Chuck Counselman
ccc@space.mit.edu
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:39:54 -0400
At 7:30 AM -0400 10/23/02, Bill Tippett wrote:
>...if you have access to an instrument like an MFJ-259,
>read the resistive and reactive parts of the impedance at the
>base with no capacitor in circuit....
Where I live, you can't get a valid impedance measurement from such
an instrument because its detector is broadband and detects too much
power from AM broadcast stations. However, an antenna noise bridge
works FB (thanks to the selectivity of the RX used as a detector).
-Chuck, W1HIS