That should work fine, Gary! You would have around 3 dB loss in a two-way splitter + a SMALL amount of mismatch-loss for the 50-75 ohm mismatch. I would expect that if your radio will work with the beverage signal, you won't likely need the preamp to make up for tha very modest loss from the splitter and the 75-50 ohm mismatch! Should work fine!
73, Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary K9GS Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:14 PM To: Topband Mailing List Subject: Topband: Passive Receive Antenna Splitter Can anyone point me to a design for a splitter for sharing a Beverage antenna between two receivers? This is for Field Day so these are not optimized Beverages by any means. Just want to allow the 80/40M stations to share antennas. Nothing fancy. My thoughts are to just use a CATV "2-Way" splitter at the output of the Beverage matching transformer and run separate feed-lines to each radio. I'm pretty sure these things work down to 1 MHz but have not measured them. I can use the pre-amp in the radio (K3) to compensate for the loss. Thoughts? -- 73, Gary K9GS Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com CW Ops #1032 http://www.cwops.org ************************************************ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband