[Skimmertalk] [dxatlas] Antenna for Quicksilver Receiver

[Pete Smith]

FWIW, I'm using an 8-foot active vertical, and results are quite 
acceptable, although I could doubtless hear more with Beverages on 80 
and 160.  The big advantage of this approach is that you don't miss 
openings because your antennas are pointed the wrong direction, and of 
course you avoid the risk of feeding 1500 watts straight to the QS1R.

The protection strategy you describe makes sense to me.  Having that 
protector between the relay and the QS1R should prevent any transients 
from less than perfect relay sequencing, though it would be good to use 
a PTT output that leads RF production if you have that sequencing available.


73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/15/2010 3:00 PM, Mack wrote:
> I plan to add a Quicksilver receiver to my station set up this week for
> multi-band use with CWSkimmer Server.
>
> 1. What antenna are you using? Height?
>
> 2. Is the antenna dedicated to the Quicksilver or are your sharing the
> antenna with a transmit antenna?
>
> 3. If you're sharing the antenna with a transmit antenna is it sufficient to
> place a receiver protector on the front end of the Quicksilver and to short
> the antenna input to ground via a relay during keying? Of course, I
> understand there are many variables here and will measure the input voltage
> to the Quicksilver to ensure I'm not exceeding 0.3mv. A mechanical relay
> error that would send 1.5kw into the input of the receiver does make me
> shudder.
>
> I plan to use this limiter on the input to the receiver:
> http://www.iceradioproducts.com/reconly.html#rflimiter
>
> 73,
>
> Mack de WB4MAK
> http://www.nfarl.org
> http://www.sedxc.org
>
>
>
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