[Elecraft] SO2R thoughts

[Cady, Fred]

Some thoughts inserted.
Cheers,
Fred KE7X



>>Now if I can just come up with some hardware to share my current antenna system (a couple tribanders on the same tower and monoband antennas on 40, 80 and 160) between the two rigs.  The triplexers (for 10,15,20) on the market are interesting but my 500 watt station is caught in the middle.  There are 200 watt triplexers and 1.5kw triplexers with prices of a few hundred $'s a a few thousand $'s. I do have room for a 2nd tower,  so I'll have to go through a cost and operational comparison of triplexers or a 2nd tower with antennas.


You won't need a triplexer if you have two separate tribanders.  Wouldn't a good solution be a cross-bar switch like a 6-pack or similar with decoders like a KRC2 to switch them?  You would want band pass filters automatically switched too.


>>I picked up a used Acom 2s1 t/r switch I may experiment with.  It won't give me a true SO2R station but it will at least allow me to use two rigs with one antenna system/amp for now.

I don't know much about that but when it is isolating the rig not transmitting wouldn't you lose the ability to listen on the second radio.  That's a key advantage of SO2R over SO2V.