[TowerTalk] Shunt Feeding, Can this be?

[Pete Smith]

Sorry, I left out a word -- paraphrasing, I believe Tom said "does not *necessarily* reflect high losses."

73, Pete

At 06:57 AM 11/16/2005, Pete Smith wrote:
>Hi Pat - Lynn told me you called, I'd guess about this.  My shunt feed is similarly flat across much of 160.  Tom W8JI says that does not reflect high losses, but I'm reasonably sure that losses account for a lot of it.  Anyway, as you said it does appear to work.
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>I'm surprised that you were able to cover both 80 and 160 just with adjustment of the series capacitor.  I would have thought that the tap point on the tower would be a considerably different impedance on 80 than on 160, and you wouldn't have been able to tune that out with the series capacitor.
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>73, Pete