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[TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:00:44 -0400
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The latest QST includes a lead tech article on an automatic antenna switch 
controller that uses a PIC and a lot of other parts on an expensive PC board to 
switch 5 antennas either manually or in response to band data from various 
transceivers.  I must be missing something, because this seems like a LOT of 
trouble for less capability than could be gotten from a $20 W9XT band decoder 
card and a few added components.  I know that there are some radios that don't 
provide BCD band data, but that problem is usually dealt with by running a 
computer program that provides the band data on an LPT port.

For this they burn 8 pages? 

73, Pete N4ZR
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