[ACARS] Multiple Scanners

Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:30:13

Folks

I am sure there is scope for a commercial sale of this capability: as a 
complete incompitent at even soldering I have no idea what Mike is on about!

But I do wonder about his comment about 'strong signals': here am I in 
Plymouth trying to decode signals over the Bay of Biscay and Northern France 
when they are anything but 'strong', and why I have one scanner dedicted to 
131.725 and with the squelch turned to full noise and the volume control on 
max. 131.725 is where some 90% of the new traffic turns up!

Ed

>From: "michael.carver" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [ACARS] Multiple Scanners
>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:21:30 -0000
>
>My way of 'combining' two recievers from one antenna, is a three resister 
>'triangle', using three 100ohm resisters connected end to end and a SO239 
>socket at each of the three joints, this gives a 50ohm appearance to all 
>three connectors.
>  Thus, antenna to one point and the two recievers to the other two points, 
>each connector will 'see' 50 ohms.
>  In practicle tests, very little loss can be heard, and with such strong 
>signals from the ACARS system, any losses can easily be compensated for by 
>turning up the AF gain.
>  Hope this has helped.
>
>  Mick Carver
>
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