Has anyone shunt fed their tower with a Steppir antenna on top. I am thinking about doing it but I am concerned that there is not enough metal in the antenna for effective top hat loading. Any insight?
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Shunt fed tower with Steppir
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There will always be some metal present and that will load the tower a bit but the big problem is that the tower tuning will change depending on what band the Steppir is tuned too.
Than again that may be an advantage and not a problem. I can see it now, fine tuning the tower on 80m by adjusting the element length on the Steppir.
I wonder how that would work. I suppose the best thing to do would be to tune the tower with the Steppir on 15m and that would allow some lee way either way.
How tall is the tower and what kind is it?
Than again that may be an advantage and not a problem. I can see it now, fine tuning the tower on 80m by adjusting the element length on the Steppir.
I wonder how that would work. I suppose the best thing to do would be to tune the tower with the Steppir on 15m and that would allow some lee way either way.How tall is the tower and what kind is it?
Series fed towers are MUCH easier to deal with but insulating them at the base is a problem. Don't forget to insulate the tower from the building it is bracketed too and break up the guy wire lengths into non-resonant lengths.