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Peter wrote:
"---but don`t want two coaxes and antennas, so what is the simplest method of joining the two aerial outputs together? I am assuming they won`t like just being joined together." Good assumption. Tom Bruhns and others have excellent answers. An r-f switch is simple and effective. Switch the antenna and its cable between transmitters. There are duplexers which allow combining the outputs of multiple transmitters to one antenna . They replace an antenna switch or relay when multiple transmitters must have access to an antenna suimultaneously as is the usual case of the usual audio and video transmitters used in TV broadcasting. But, why bother with a duplexer requiring tuned cavities, circuits, and, or, multiple lines if simultaneous operation of the transmitters is not required? In the case of multiple transmitters to be operated simultaneously, they can get much isolation by end to end antenna stacking. The stacked antennas fall into each other`s null zones and this isolates the individual antennas much as does cross-polarization. I`ve seen estimates of 1/10 as much coupling between end to end antennas as compared to side by side antennas at the same distance from each other. This guess, 10 db, seems reasonable to me. Cross-polarization estimates I`ve seen for coupling are 20 db down from coupling for same polarization of antennas. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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