Topband: Passive Receive Antenna Splitter

[n0tt1 at juno.com]

You might find this of interest, the magic-t combiner/splitter:

http://www.w8ji.com/combiner_and_splitters.htm

73,
Charlie, N0TT

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:13:44 -0500 Gary K9GS <garyk9gs at wi.rr.com> writes:
> Can anyone point me to a design for a splitter for sharing a Beverage 
> 
> antenna between two receivers?  This is for Field Day so these are 
> not 
> optimized Beverages by any means.
> 
> Just want to allow the 80/40M stations to share antennas.  Nothing 
> fancy.
> 
> My thoughts are to just use a CATV "2-Way" splitter at the output of 
> the 
> Beverage matching transformer and run separate feed-lines to each 
> radio. 
> I'm pretty sure these things work down to 1 MHz but have not 
> measured 
> them.  I can use the pre-amp in the radio (K3) to compensate for the 
> loss.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Gary K9GS
> 
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