[Towertalk] B&W - It just ain't the same

[n4kg@juno.com]

YES  YOU  DO !
(have the test equipment to determine it experimentally)

Connect your amplifier and antenna to the switch.
Connect a Wattmeter (or RF millivoltmeter) and Dummyload 
to the 'other radio' port and measure how much power is
transferred to that port.  Determine the maximum allowable
input to your 'other radio'.  Compare the numbers.

I noted my TS830 warns against any input over 7 Volts
which comes to 0.5 Watts at 50 ohms.  I smiled when
I remembered seeing a warning on the back of an old
75A3 not to exceed 50 Volts (= 50 Watts ! ) at the input.

Tom  N4KG

On Tue, 03 Dec 2002  Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> writes:
> I just had an unpleasant experience on the phone with B&W.  I was 
> looking 
> for the isolation spec on a B&W 594 coax transfer switch.  Once the 
> guy 
> realized I didn't want one of their high-priced current antenna 
> models, he 
> couldn't have been less interested.   I wouldn't even have minded 
> the 
> outcome, if the guy had been a little more sympathetic, but the 
> bottom line 
> was "go away."
> 
> Anyone out there got a manual for one of these switches, or any idea 
> where 
> I might find one?  My thought is to use it to swap either of my two 
> radios 
> to one of two sets of antennas.  However, one station runs 100 
> watts, the 
> other 1KW, and I'm leery of there being too much coupling between 
> the two 
> radios.  Unfortunately, I don't have the test equipment to determine 
> it 
> experimentally.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Sometimes a tower is just a tower
> 
> 
> 
> 
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