Re: Topband: 4sq receive antenna side filters?

2017-09-11 Thread Lee STRAHAN
...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Grant Saviers Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 7:26 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: 4sq receive antenna side filters? I was asked by a DXpedition leader if it was practical to bandpass filter the input (antenna side) of the DX Engineering 4 sq's

Re: Topband: 4sq receive antenna side filters?

2017-09-11 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
The Achilles heal of active whip receive antennas is the inability to do filtering ahead of the amplifier. I have spent many hours brainstorming this problem, and have yet to devise a solution. Especially one with 40 dB rejection. I am thinking that if there was any way to do this, DXE would be

Topband: 4sq receive antenna side filters?

2017-09-11 Thread Grant Saviers
I was asked by a DXpedition leader if it was practical to bandpass filter the input (antenna side) of the DX Engineering 4 sq's they plan to use (I have one). Given the few acres of the island and 5 feet ASL there isn't space to get adequate antenna separation and of course both transmit