[AMRadio] Possible switch for ladder line use

[LEE BAHR]

That means you are going to have ladder line running all over the building 
with high powered rigs hooked to it.  I think this is not the best practice. 
Using a Bauer  is not going to allow you to jump from band to band or even 
possibly moving far from it's tuned frequency anyway.  Runs of coax in your 
shack are not going to degrade your signal to any measurable degree.  I 
think you need to re-think your rig layouts more then your antenna switching 
needs right now.  If you are unwilling to do this, use a home made remote 
tunable balanced line antenna tuner with coax running to each radio 
location.  I personally cannot imagine having open wire line running to 3, 4 
or 5 locations within a building when hooked to high powered rigs.

Lee, w0vt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick" <rickb at tx.rr.com>
To: "'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service'" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Possible switch for ladder line use


> Hi Geoff.
>
>
>
> I agree it would be much easier to have only one tuner instead of using 
> one
> for each station, however, the physical distance between them makes that 
> all
> but impossible. I have a Bauer 707 on one end and BC-610's on the other 
> with
> the Ranger in another location and plastic radios in yet another area of 
> the
> shack. I know it would make little or no difference, but I also want to 
> use
> as little coax as possible and having a tuner for each radio sitting next 
> to
> or right above it means I can have only a very short jumper to the radio.
>
>
>
> Rick/K5IAR
>
>  _____
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