Hi, Joe. Detuning a tower and shunt feeding a tower seem to be essentially the same mechanism except for whether there is a feed or not, and I've often wondered why running a wire down the center of
If you run a wire down the center of a grounded tower, then the tower functions as a Faraday cage so that the wire is non radiating. It will still make a dandy shielded transmission line. If you run
I've often wondered why running a wire down the center of a tower wouldn't create the same coaxial section as surrounding the tower with multiple wires. Never tried it or heard of anyone who has use
There is a site in Portland Oregon (Mt. Scott) that has lots of tuned/decoupled towers, because they are near an AM broadcast site. The AM station was having issues with their directional patterns. T
The Hy-Gain HyTower uses a wire inside the tower to feed the 80 meter vertical section. Bill K4IBC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Towe
But the stinger is insulated at the top of the HT, right? 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com Bill K4IBC _______________________________________________ _____________________________
Yes, that is one of the weak points too. Bill K4IBC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com htt