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Subject: FW: Using Tower for Antenna
From: Darrell_Upson@pa.xerox.com (Darrell_Upson@pa.xerox.com)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:32:01 PST
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From: gtaft@voyager.net
To: Darrell_Upson@PA.Xerox.COM
Subject: RE: Using Tower for Antenna
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 5:40PM

Wayne

May I suggest u get your hands on John True's (W4OQ) article on 
 shunt
feeding existing towers for low freq in May 1975 Ham Radio.  If 
 u can't
locate it, send me a business size SASE and I'll sent u a 
 copy.  It's
straighforward and easy for less than super technical 
 folks like us to
understand.

I use one for both 80 and 160 (two 
 towers) and they work great for an easy
way to get on the low bands 
 w/o a lot of new construction.

73  George  W8UVZ


>Wayne,
>Your 
 tower should make a terrific 80M vertical.  You need a good ground 
> 
 system with as many quarter wave radials as possible and then shunt 
> 
 feed the tower.
>Darrell WB6ADZ
>----------
>From: 
 owner-towertalk@akorn.net
>To: towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: 
 Using Tower for Antenna
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Monday, December 09, 1996 1:15PM
>
>I 
 have a 48 ft. self supporter (Rohn hdbx) with an A3S and a couple
>of 
 40M half slopers.  Am now considering using this setup as an 
 80M
>vertical but don't know where to start.  I did try to dip the 
 tower
>with an an-prm-10 gdo.  It appeared to have a dip at 3.1 Mhz 
 and the
>meter did not begin to rise until 6.7 Mhz.  Is this sort of 
 reading
>normal?  Or is my gdo shot?  Any help with this project would 
 be
>appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Wayne  AJ5M   
 ehayes@vnet.ibm.com
>
>
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                                  73
                                   
         George  W8UVZ

                                                
     

y gdo shot?  Any help with this project would 

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