Greg Troxel writes:
> There is diversity, and then there is having a different antenna
> pattern from summing two antennas.
>
> I would expect that the two connectors when used for diversity have tx
> on one port, and rx on both ports, somehow taking the better signal (at
> some level - simple summing vs. dual receivers).
In most implementations, there is no 'summing', rather the "best" of
the N (typically 2) antennas is fed to the baseband.
> Another approach is to use a power splitter and put two antennas on
> the primary connector. This would bring the gain of the omni down by
> 3 dB (plus loss of splitter and extra coax/connectors involved) and
> then you could put a low-gain antenna on the other port.
I'm not sure there is any system gain with this approach.
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