[TowerTalk] shunt fed tower

[Phil Camera]

Should a shunt fed tower perform on receive as well as a refernce vertical (off center fed or base fed) of the same height as the tower?

Assuming radials are the same, Yes.


Should a shunt fed tower perform as well on receive as it seems to perform on transmit.

Depending on what you're working, assuming DX.  No

The vertical will hear all that vertically polarized manmade noise.  This is where most folks have different receiving antennas, especially for the low bands.  Beverages, K9AY loops, pennants, flags, dipoles.




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Phil Camera, KB9CRY
Lockport, Illinois
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