[Elecraft] Antenna switches

[Jim Miller]

Off topic.  Sorry.  What are the functional disadvantages that make it
apparently undesirable to build an antenna switch that is a crossover 2
radios x 2 antennas?  What if you only used one path at a time but could
switch them easily?  Crosstalk?  Is it so strong as to damage the other
radio?  Is it not possible to achieve acceptable compatibility with 2 radios
and 2 antennas?  Or to swap amplifiers between two radios and two antennas
by placing one on the input and another on the output of the amplifiers?  Or
to swap in the better antenna for a short contact that you just can't seem
to make on the current one?  

 

I don't relish placing a switch on each antenna and another switch on every
radio in order to connect anything to anything.  How do you do it?  

 

It would take 4 1x2 switches on the input of the amplifiers and 4 more on
the output to do what could be done with 2 switches of 2x2.

 

Thanks, Jim KG0KP