"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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I'd use a splitter designed for television use. You can find one at almost
any store selling TV accessories including discount stores like K-Mart or
Wal-Mart. They're very inexpensive. However, they will have type F
connectors which you'll have to adapt to BNC or whatever your scanner and
antenna use. The adapters will probably cost more than the splitter. If
you can't find the adapters where you get the splitter, you can find them
at stores like Radio Shack or Fry's.

The loss is around 3 dB. This is unavoidable. It won't make a noticeable
difference except for weak signals.

One of the properties of the splitter, as opposed to just a tee connector,
is that the two receivers are isolated from each other. So turning one on
or off or disconnecting it should have no effect on the other.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Robert11 wrote:
Hi,

I have two scanners, which I would like them to share a single
(Scantenna) antenna in my attic.

Only one scanner will ever be on at any time.
But, I would like to "permanently" have both scanners attached to the
single antenna.

What would you recommend as a reasonably low cost splitter for this ?
(is Splitter the right term ?)

What type of losses would I expect ?

Just out of curiosity, would the losses be the same if I was actually to
use both scanners at the same time compared to just one of them ?

Thanks,
Bob

I was just in BIG LOTS and splitter and adapters could have all been had for
less than $5.