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LF: Re: Insulating a Versatower from ground

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Subject: LF: Re: Insulating a Versatower from ground
From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:50:21 +0100
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Hi Chris, I think you know me and my approach by now :-)).....suggesting you asked the wrong question !
Insulating the mast is possible I am sure as Mark a professional BC engineer 
says..........
But a different question might be, "how to I use the tower to hold up an 
effective vertical?"
Rik's tutorial is very good, and one easy way is to pull the bottom of the 
vertical away from the tower structure. I think the easiest way would be to 
combine a couple of ideas, both we know work from experience.
The loss to the grounded tower will probably not be that big. However the 
loss is a function of the voltage on the vertical wire. Because this wire 
leads from the top of the loading coil the voltage is very high  (at high 
powers) coupling current into the tower structure. If you reduce the 
inductance in the base coil(leave sufficient to allow for weather changes) 
and put the balance at the top of the mast you will greatly reduce the 
voltage on the vertical wire thus reducing the current coupled into the mast 
metalwork (Mike, G3XDV pioneered some of this on hs house mounted pole mast) 
You have a sturdy support for the coil and to a great extent the Q or loss 
factor of this coil is irrelevant. this be because the antenna current has 
traversed the radion resistance before it reached the coil (well maybe not a 
very technical explanation but that is the effect)
Is this better than the loop fed via a vertical wire as as a heavily 
capacitance loaded vertical??  The argument goes like this.....
The tower supported vertical will have an effective height of half the tower 
height because there is little capacitive loading (unless you string 
horizontal wires from the top, which I believe, the "estate manager" will 
veto :-))
The loop because of its high capacitance will have an effective height 
almost equal to its physical height. This if the loop is about half the 
height of the tower there will be little difference in the ERP between the 
two systems. In fact the loop may be better, as I keep banging on about it, 
the capacitive load will lead to a much lower ground loss than you will 
probably see from the tower supported wire. This is relatively easy to to 
check by measuring the complex impedance of the the two systems (without the 
loading coil or ant tuning)  I think you will findd the "R" in R+jX is much 
higher for the mast and this R is 99% due to ground loss, because the 
radiation resistance is minimal. Matching will not help, you need to 
increase the current in the vertical section, and that can only be achieved 
by reducing the ground loss..
I hope that makes sense, as it was typed rather quickly.

Best wishes
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Wilson" <dead.fets@gmail.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 5:37 PM
Subject: LF: Insulating a Versatower from ground


Hello LF'ers


Has anyone tried making insulating bushes for the tilt over hinge and
the bottom locking peg on a crank up / crank over 40 or 60 foot
Versatower? How much of a detrimental effect would the steel 6 foot
above ground, concreted in support post a couple or three inches away
from it have? Specifically I am toying with doing this to use it on LF
136kHz  with  my  horizontal  quad loop as the capacitive "top hat" to
gain  as  much  vertical height for the radiating element as possible,
right now the mast has a long insulated line to the corner of my horizontal quad
loop  with  the  vertical  some  way  from the mast, although today to
minimise  sag  from  having  the vertical some distance away I moved it
nearer  the  mast.  By  so doing I have gained maybe another 8 feet of
height. Thanks.



Thanks

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 Best regards, Chris 2E0ILY

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