Topband: Passive Receive Antenna Splitter

[Tony Magon]

Hi

This may be of interest

http://www.dxing.info/equipment/rolling_your_own_bryant.dx

73

Tony VK2IC


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Gary K9GS <garyk9gs at wi.rr.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
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> 73,
>
> Gary K9GS
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