D Rodman MD wrote:
> the receiver and watching the S meter. To our surprise the compromise
> position
> for the system (160 & 80m) in terms of jumper position does not produce
> the best
> receive signal one can obtain. It looks more like a monoband system
> rather than
> a duoband. By changing the jumpers we could obtain at least 10dB signal
> increase
> on each band separately, but also at the expense of an even greater loss
I found the same thing when I evaluated one of these years ago.
It is just not a broadband design. The only thing you can do
to mitigate the problem is to use taller verticals that simply
bring in more signal to begin with. Or use a different amplifier
like the Hi-Z.
Rick N6RK
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