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Re: Topband: radials and shunt fed tower

To: luc kerkhofs <luckerkhofs@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: radials and shunt fed tower
From: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>
Reply-to: herbs@vitelcom.net
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:31:52 -0400
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luc kerkhofs wrote:
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> I managed to shunt feed my 90 foot tower wih  40 m 3 el  beam as toploading . 
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> Now my question is should I connect all the radials I put on the ground to 
> the base of the tower or should I just connect the braid of the coax to the 
> tower base and leave the radials
> just connected to each other but not connected to tower base and coax braid ?
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Luc.....all your radials and coax braid should connect to the base of 
the tower which I presume has a good DC ground as well to the tower base.

Herb, KV4FZ
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