Michael W Elliott wrote:
> I am trying to use a 160m sloper on a TRI-EX 54 foot crank-up tower.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> 54 feet is a little short but with a beam on top you may be close to having a
> functioning vertical. With three or four 5 foot metal speaders at the top I
> would drop wires to the ground in the form of a cage. Make sure the coax and
> rotor cables are all grounded or chocked at the base. I would not at first
> worry about finding the sweet point in the form of a tap to the tower. You
> already have a unipole with the cage connected at the top of the steel and
> your grounded coax or a single wire will provide the return path to ground,
> which ever is easier. Use a CLC network to match the tower or use an
> impedance bridge to save time. You will fid that even a 54 foot top loaded
> vertical is most likely a better DX performer than a cloud warming sloper.
>
73 and good luck.......Herb, KV4FZ
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