I have noticed on my Mighty fine junk diplexer, I get around 10 to 15 DB of
insertion loss on 2 meters receive.
Is this normal for a diplexer?
There is a repeater about 100K away from here that usually comes in around
S3 to S5 during the day...until I took the diplexer out of line, at which
point it was coming in at S6 to S9...I switched the diplexer in and out
about three times to make sure it wasn't just conditions going up and
down...and got the same results.
I also checked to see if it did the same on simplex...and I found the same
general results.
I suspect that instead of having a 0.1 DB insertion loss, this particular
diplexer has a 10DB insertion loss.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: ts2000


> Hi Richard.
>
> I bought a Tri-plexer for mine so that I can put my Comet GP15 on the 6
> meter, 2 meter, and 70 cm connectors without constantly swapping the
> coax.  It works very nicely that way.
>
> As others have no doubt commented, there isn't any way to put both 2
meters
> and 70 cm on one connector without buying something like this but quite
> honestly, there is so little insertion loss, I never noticed the
difference
> and it is definitely worth the convenience.  There was a side benefit in
my
> case.  I had trouble with energy from my 6 meter halo getting into 2
meters
> with an extreme amount of RF--potentially strong enough to take a receiver
> front end out.  Passing it through a splitter like that was one real easy
> way to eliminate the 6 meter energy from getting back into the 2 meter
section.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 06:00 PM 1/5/2008 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi;
> >Can't resist a ts2000 question or two.  If you are using a uhf/vhf
antenna
> >with one coax, how do we connect it do both connectors on the radio?  Can
> >you set the radio so one connector works for both bands?
> >Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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