Hi.

That sounds pretty fishy to me.  I can't really see a difference on receive 
with mine (not an MFJ punit).  I've kind of come around to the point of 
view that I'm through with MFJ because of their lack of quality control.
73, de Lou K2LKK

At 09:18 AM 1/8/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>It sounds defective to me.  =20
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:47 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ts2000
>
>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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