[Skimmertalk] Antennas for multi-band Skimmer installations

Wes Cosand wes.cosand at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 13:35:39 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

>  FWIW, the Clifton active antenna amp has a relay between it and the
> antenna rod, which opens whenever it is powered off.  There is also a gas
> tube before the first transistors.
>

Sounds pretty good!  Probably would work fine for my needs.

I am protecting my present receiver with the Polyphaser gas tube and the ICE
model 197 RF Limiter.  (Does it make any sense to have 4 times as much money
in the protection hardware as the SoftRock receiver???)... sigh...

Wes WZ7I


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