[TowerTalk] Shunt fed tower for 160m

David Gilbert ab7echo at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 22:13:49 EDT 2022


I'm pretty certain the answer to that question depends upon more factors 
than you could possibly know or model, and if you can't model it 
anything else is a guess.

73,
Dave   AB7E




On 4/7/2022 6:55 PM, Stan Stockton wrote:
> I am interested in knowing what the detriment might be if you had a 80 foot tower with a large Yagi for top loading within four feet of a 20 foot tall concrete building with lots of rebar and a metal roof.
>
> I’m not worried about matching the tower for 50 ohm feed but worried about whether the concrete structure will attenuate the radiated signal and if so, by how much.
>
> Thanks…Stan, ZF9CW



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