On Wed, 5 May 2010, wd5etd wrote: > Sorry for the dumb question but, I have a group trying to add a link > at one site for 5 repeaters. They are not trunked. What is the > cheapest way for them to share 1 antenna? They have a very good DB > antenna but, I did not think it necessary for them to buy 5! > > They are out in the country quite a ways. So, there is not much else > to interfere. > > I know a combiner is probably the usual way but, I thought there might > be a cheaper way since it is only for receive. > > They do not have a tower for the receive antenna but, they do have a > multi-story building. So, feed line expense is not a concern if they > use multiple antennas.
Cheapest way would be a band-pass cavity ahead of a cable TV distribution amp and a multi-port hybrid splitter. This assumes that the antenna isn't duplexed and used for transmitting as well nor are any of the transmit frequencies within the receive bandwidth. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
