[TowerTalk] Shunt Feeding a Vertical

[K9MA]

I must disagree. I’ve been shunt feeding a 21 meter tower on 160 for years, with a simple gamma match. At most, it is electrically 3/16 wavelength. 

See ON4UN’s book. 

73,
Scott K9MA 

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Scott Ellington. K9MA

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> On Sep 5, 2019, at 5:40 PM, VE6WZ_Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Your tower is too short for a shunt-feed.  It needs to be inductive at the QRG of interest, 90 degrees or more (1/4 WL).