It can be done. I used to work with a UHF commercial system which combined multiple repeaters to a common antenna. The cans were built & tuned by TxRx; rather expensive in terms of money and insertion loss.
At 01:38 PM 2/20/2008, you wrote: >Guys, > >I've found a site for my most recent Ham repeater project. Nice farm >tower on a hill, clean of RF colo, etc. The farm repeater is a 463.xxx >+ machine and I'm on 444.825. It is set up with nice hardline and a 16 >bay folded dipole antenna (not sure the mfg., but he thinks it's DB). >Anyway, assuming that thing has useable SWR on my TX frequency (I've >had that happen before, not holding my breath), does anyone have any >ideas about the viability of running both repeaters on the same >antenna but connecting the duplexer outputs together in to the common >feedline? I've done no math, and not a lot of thinking, but is this >one of those times when I might run odd multiples of 1/4 wave coax to >a T at the hardline or something? Both repeaters have BpBr duplexers >and both have isolators on their outputs. > >73 DE N0MJS > >-- >Cort Buffington >H: +1-785-838-3034 >M: +1-785-865-7206 > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Thanks, Robin Midgett K4IDC 615-322-5836 office - rolls to pager 615-835-7699 pager 615-301-1642 home [EMAIL PROTECTED] Radio Gear For Sale: http://www.people.vanderbilt.edu/~robin.midgett/index.htm
