WebSep 23, 1996 · Shunt-fed tower for 160. by Donald L. Schmi » Mon, 23 Sep 1996 04:00:00. A number of years ago a friend gave me a drawing for shunt-feeding my. tower for 160 meters. It shows it being fed at the base of the tower. with a 1,000 uf. wide spaced variable capacitor. The wire is. spaced 3 feet from tower and goes up tower 43 feet and connects … WebJan 14, 2012 · Shunt feeding a tower is not an easy thing to do. You really need consider every part of the existing antenna system, including the tower/ mast. A good design for a shunt feed tower needs at least 120 radials laid out, each 250 foot long, and this would work on 1.8 and 3.5MHz.
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WebShunt-fed tower itself for 160m operation . As mentioned earlier, this is a guyed tower. This and all the towers here have 1/4" 7 strand EHS guy cables that are broken up with insulators at the 27.5' magic length to be non-resonant for the ham bands. This tower is fed with a single RG-213 coax from the shack to the base of the tower. WebSep 24, 1996 · A shunt fed tower usually does not. require the feeder stub to run the full length of the tower. Typically, the length of the stub is about one-quarter wavelength, usually less. If. it is shorter than one-quarter wl, you will need a tuning capacitor. connected in series with the stub at the bottom to tune out the inductive. implicitly detached 10
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WebA shunt coil of about 100 microHenries at the feedpoint (67 turns of #20 insulated wire on a T200A-2 core) fine-tuned the input impedance on 160 meters. Fig. 2 - The 2.25:1 broadband transformer. If you attempt something similar on your tower, you must match the resulting resistance when the gamma-arm reactance is tuned out. WebThe best matching system for feeding a grounded Marconi element ... If we are already at the top of a tower with the gamma tap point, ... This is typical of a shunt-fed element when the matching section is a thin long wire. We can decrease reactance by increasing the effective diameter of gamma conductors, and this will increase required ... WebSome shunt feeds are fed from the center of the tower. Typical shunt feeds are asymmetrical and use single wires. These often have the disadvantages of distorting the radiation pattern, reducing bandwidth, and creating matching difficulties because of highly reactive drive point impedances. literacy groups poster