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Subject: [TowerTalk] terminators on a antenna switch
From: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:19:52 -0500
> the dummy load. That leaves 1 antenna position open. Should an unused
> position/coax connector be covered with a termination connector. I

Why worry? It will make no difference in anything.

> know that cable coax distribution blocks should have termination caps
> screwed onto unused ports. Should the same precaution be taken with
> antenna switches?

That's for a different reason. Spitters REQUIRE termination to keep 
losses predictable, and so the input port looks like the designed 
impedance. They require terminations that are the system design 
impedance.

Switches do not. They care less about the open ports in unused 
positions.

> How would you go about making a termination connector? Just short it
> together?

What application? With a splitter, it needs to be a resistance of the 
line Zo. With a switch, all the termination cap will do is keep the 
connector from getting wet if it is raining in the room.


73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com 


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