Dave,
Most of our Beverages are over 1000' long but they perform well even up to 30
Meters. Also, since we usually have more than one operator on a band we
split our Beverages into four sets of outputs in the shack. Conventional
wisdom suggests that a preamp before the splitter would be best. However,
any saturation or nonlinearity will paralyse reception during transmission.
We split the raw signal and put a tunable preamp at the output of each
antenna selector switch. The easiest and cheapest splitter is a standard TV
coaxial splitter even they are not designed for 1.8 MHz. We put an ICE
broadcast filter before the splitter. Hope this is helpful. 73
Darrell, N6DX@aol.com
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