Topband: 2 Queations

[John Wagner]

> >> 
> >> Jim & Carolyn Kingsbury <kingsburys at bellsouth.net> wrote:  
> Has anyone 
> >> measured
> >> or tried the tv cable splitters on the low frequencies 
> >> (1.8 thru 10 Mhz)?Jim,
> >  
> > I've run TV splitters from several manufacturers on a network 
> > analyzer.  They
> > do an acceptable job on 160 for RX antenna applications. 
> The loss  is a bit 
> > higher than it should be but the split is OK and the 
> impedance  match is OK. 
> > I've used them in a pinch on my phased flags and Beverages.
> >   
> >   A better choice is the splitter described by W8JI on his 
> web page. I 
> > use that
> > whenever I can.
> >   
> >   73,  Larry - W7IUV
> 
> 
> KD9SV makes a commercial version of the Magic-T splitter,
> too, available from Radioware: 
>      http://www.radio-ware.com/products/svrsc.htm 
> 
> 
> 73,  Jeff  K8ND
> 

Well, since we are advertising, the W8JI designed combiner-splitter is
availble from DX Engineering.

www.dxengineering.com

73, John W8JJW