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Re: Topband: Switching Beverages

To: topband@contesting.com, Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Switching Beverages
From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:58:25 +1300
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Hi Pete,

As long as your relays have decent isolation, even for high impedances, 
it may even be better to switch the Bev wires themselves.  That way you 
don't share the ground at the feed end, and avoid any common impedance 
coupling.

73, Greg, ZL3IX

On 2011-02-02 11:29, Pete Smith wrote:
> If I have a Beverage "hub" from which I want to run several of them, is
> there any reason not to do the switching on the antenna side of the
> matching unit, rather than on the coax side?  Could save some
> complexity, a couple of matching transformers at least.
>
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