[Icom] re IC-706 ant selection

[Harry Brown]

Fern,

The best approach to splitting the RF output is to use a diplexer. 
Diplexers are available commercially or you can home brew one. The 
Proceedings of the 2001 Central States VHF Conference has an article by 
Kent, WA5VJB on how to make one for 50MHz/HF and one to split the 432 and 
144 MHz outputs of an IC706MKIIG. The conference proceedings are available 
from the ARRL.

73, Harry, W3IIT

At 03:55 PM 3/12/2002 -0700, Fern Rivard wrote:
>     Since the HF and 6 meter bands share the same antenna connector on the
>IC-706, what is the best arrangement to make it an automatic selection of
>antennas from the normal hf bands to 6 meters? I have a friend who presently
>has the SGC antenna tuner and matching antenna for the normal HF bands but
>now wants to have access to the 6 meter band from his mobile. The plan was
>to use a commercially made antenna such as the Larsen NMO-50 (1/4 wave whip)
>for 6 meters. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>     Best of 73's from Fern
>
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