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Re: Topband: shunt fed tower - question?

To: <topband@contesting.com>, "Bill Tippett" <btippett@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Topband: shunt fed tower - question?
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:31:58 -0500
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>          Changed my mind since it's not clear to me it
would
> help much.  35 kHz 2:1 BW is fine for my normal use.
Would
> go to a motorized shunt capacitor if I needed more BW.

A "wider" shunt might increase BW, because it is certainly
part of the overall selectivity or Q of the array. At some
point, however, the parasitic elements will dominate the
bandwidth. Maybe you are already at that point.

73 Tom

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