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That seems awful high to me. My duplexer the loss is not even noticeable on
receive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:47 PM
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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>> Louis Kim Kline
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