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Old October 4th 05, 10:46 PM
Crazy George
 
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Ben Jackson has some good points. You need not worry about audio, usually,
as the FM capture takes care of the weaker signal. So, filtering the video
carrier and near sidebands is all that is necessary.

However, in answer to your question, the way you connect bandpass filters in
parallel is with power dividers, amplifiers, and power dividers again,
backwards as summers. Otherwise, controlling the out of band input and
output impedances of several in parallel is a monumental, but solvable task.
Spice, anyone?

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Crazy George
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Hi

I have come up with one of those crazy DYI ideas which I would like to

try
to implement but one thing still remains.

I have two UHF (TV) arial pointing in different directions and would like

to
connect them together through BP filters to minimize noise.
BP = Bandpass
Antenna 1: UHF channel (Europe) BP 1 ch 22-37, BP 2 ch40 -44, BP 3 ch 49 -
68/ or high pass
Antenna 2: UHF channel (Europe) BP 1 ch 21 / or low pass, BP 2 ch38 -39,

BP
3 ch 47

I have found formulas to design each section of BF but how to you connect
several BP filters in parallel??? I have investigated some old TV filter

and
they have a coil (12 WDG) in and out of each BP section but is that the

way
to do it and how does it influence the design of each BP.

The only approach that I can find is to split the signal into three (-

6dB )
then feed each into a BP filter and the Combine them again (-6dB). This

will
result in each BP section seeing 75 Ohms as they shouland they would not
interfere with eachother. Ofcouse i would need a 20 dB amplifier to fix

the
loss.

But is there a better way.

Best regards

Svend Holby