[TowerTalk] Building a "little pistol" contest station and the C-31XR

[Jim Lux]

At 01:17 PM 10/6/2006, n4gi at tampabay.rr.com wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
>
> > Which is why I ask about whether you intend to use 2 radios at
> > once
> > (I guess you do, with your SO2R questions), in which case, there
> > might be "better" ways to solve the problem.  (two different
> > single
> > band antennas stacked and separated by a 10 feet might be cheaper
> > than all the filters you'll need with the tightly coupled C31XR)
>
>I tried this....
>
>After toiling with the mechanical (wind load!) complexities of how to
>mount three separate 10-15-20 yagis at reasonable separation distances
>on a city lot, I found that I was not only dealing with the RX
>interference problems, but nasty radiation pattern problems as well.  I
>then put a C31 up and went to town with SO2R.

And how do you solve the isolation problem?