Re: Topband: RX and TX remote direction switch

2019-02-26 Thread Lee STRAHAN
I used to use rotary switches also but once I developed the coax switches for Hi-Z that have 80 dB of cross port isolation. I would never go back to using a switch or single relay with a typical cross channel isolation from their on/off ratio being only 40 dB or so. This is especially importan

Re: Topband: RX and TX remote direction switch

2019-02-26 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
On 2/25/2019 9:17 AM, VE6WZ_Steve wrote: This is used to replace a traditional manual rotary or push button direction switch. Although a system something like this is required to control antennas at a remote QTH, it can be useful at 73, de steve ve6wz. _ I used to have 6

Topband: RX and TX remote direction switch

2019-02-25 Thread VE6WZ_Steve
Last week I uploaded a video showing how the various RX antennas and TX array are direction switched at my remote station. Link below. The system I use combines the PST rotator program together with various 8 relay boards to provide a PC based rotator point-and-shoot interface. This is used to

Topband: RX and TX remote direction switch

2019-02-25 Thread VE6WZ_Steve
Last week I uploaded a video showing how the various RX antennas and TX array are direction switched at my remote station. Link below. The system I use combines the PST rotator program together with various 8 relay boards to provide a PC based rotator point-and-shoot interface. This is used to