At 07:47 PM 08/18/09, you wrote: >I have heard of repeater owners using pre-amps on the receive side >of the duplexer and adding 1 pass-reject cavity after the preamp and >placing a pre-amp on the pass reject cavity to enhance more receive. > >Does this work or is it a myth? > >Artie >k2aau Depends on if you have enough headroom in the duplexer and enough system isolation.
<http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/preamps.html> While this is on 900MHz the theory and comments are just as applicable on 2m, 220 and 440. <http://www.repeater-builder.com/tech-info/speaking-of-preamps.html>