[TowerTalk] 100ft mobile on 160

[Stan Stockton]

John,

Before deciding it isn't going to work and doing something different, I would try it first with some top loading wires and a shunt feed.  I would highly recommend not using it as a support for an inverted V, which will be a really high angle radiator for 160m at that height.

73...Stan, K5GO

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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 6:37 AM, John E Cleeve <g3jvc at jcleeve.idps.co.uk> wrote:
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> I have a 100ft galvanised mobile mast by Radio Structures in the UK, the
> mast has not been used for quite a while and its potential is being wasted.
> I am considering its use as a "parked" top loaded vertical radiator for 160
> metres, raising the mast to full height when required. The principles of
> shunt feed etc. as applied to a fixed mast are well documented in the
> handbooks, but a telescopic, lattice structure, with all the associated
> mechanical variables may pose different electrical and continuity problems.
> I would be grateful for the views of the group.
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> Sincerely, John G3JVC / GM3JVC.
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