[Towertalk] Shunt Fed Tower 160/80

Jim Smith jimsmith@shaw.ca
Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:53:47 -0700


Brett,

I'm having difficulty visualizing this.  Do you have a wire running from 
your roof to ground?  Radials on the (big?) roof?  Or do you just 
connect the coax shield to the bottom of the tower and forget about any 
kind of ground?  Could you describe the "bit of wire" which provides 
some top loading?  I expect to soon have a C4-SXL on 9m of Rohn 25 on 
the roof and would be very interested in being able to use the structure 
on 80/160.

Jim Smith    VE7FO


VR2BrettGraham wrote:

> WL7M recently reported his success at shunt feeding his tower.
>
> Having managed to shunt feed my 5.7m roof tower on 160/80m with 
> uninsulated
> rope top guys & all the top loading a bit of wire & the 2.4m boom of 
> my quad can
> provide, I would like add two things: