One word of caution, Gary, if the CATV splitter is a transformer type, rather than resistive it may of have enough low-frequency response for 160 m! Check around with RS and your local electronics stores for 50 ohm 2-way splitters. Those are generally resistive and have frequency response from DC up to a GHz or so. Some of the TV stuff is transformer coupled.
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