I have used both shunt feed and sloping wire feed through a series capacitor on a grounded tower for 160M and it works wonderful!! Just takes a little tinkering to get it right.
73, Jack, W9GT -------------- Original message -------------- From: VJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recommend not grounding the tower. Makes it harder > to load up. Find a good ceramic insulating base like > you're supposed to have, and the correct guy wire > insulators spaced to minimize interaction with the > radiating element, the tower. > > Here, you can see how we tried it the other way and I > just couldn't get the loading to set. > > http://wa3vjb.amham.com/pics/Garden.jpg > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 14 07:18:30 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Delivered-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.40]) by mailman.qth.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67B5859C1A for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-24-160-158-74.satx.res.rr.com [24.160.158.74]) by ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5EBBroF015296 for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:11:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:11:50 -0500 From: W5OMR/Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Every day of Freedom is a good day to thank a Veteran. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Re: upside down reply buttons, sending to whom, and tops VS bottoms and other non AM tech stuff References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-BeenThere: amradio@mailman.qth.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio.mailman.qth.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/private/amradio> List-Post: <mailto:amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:18:30 -0000 Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: > Interesting....hitting 'reply' now sends only to the original sender, > not to the list. Before it sent only to the list and 'reply all' sent > to the list *and* the original poster. Right. That's the way I would prefer. > I'd have to disagree with Geoff about the list suffering if set up > like this, Let me get this straight.. you disagree with me, because you don't think the list will suffer, if not all particpants are able to partcipate in the message discussions, however... > My reasons for replying to the list with a response are partly selfish > too: having been less active over the past decade, I feel better > knowing that if my assumption or advice is wrong, those who are more > qualified will correct it. This helps not only the original recipient, > but also re-educates me at the same time. Such a deal! You wish that the replies go to the list, because you want everyone to see/help with advice? Aren't we saying the same thing, here? -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
