[TenTec] Orion II receive antenna input

[Richards]

I cannot speak for an Orion station, but my Omni VII has just such a 
receiving antenna connector, and I use a Wellbrook active loop with it 
all the time.  Sometimes my big stick hears better, while other times 
the loop hears better.

I do nothing and give it no thought whatsoever, and have experienced no
known problems with this setup.  The Loop is at one side of the back 
yard, and the big stick vertical monopole is thirty feet away in the 
middle of the back yard.

I will be installing a DX-Engineers active receive vertical antenna, and 
they recommend locating it something like a quarter wavelength away from 
your transmitting antenna.  I will probably route that around to the 
front of the house just to be sure I don't over load it.  But I plan 
nothing special for it in the shack other than to keep the coax from 
resting against the transmitter coax, just in case.

Just MY take on the matter.   Hope it provides some useful insight.

As a courtesy, I will send you the user manual for your reference where 
you are now... by separate message.

    ================  Richards -K8JHR  ====================


On 1/11/2010 2:06 PM, Speer, Doug wrote:

How is the use of a separate receive antenna best handled
with a single Orion II station?

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