Not why............................ but WHY !! On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM, hitekgearhead <hitekgearh...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> > > I know I am going to get the singular answer of "WHY" but I really would > like some technical input on this. > > In my car I have an old Genesis series convertacom connected to a dual band > Comet antenna. I often will swap my VHF and UHF HT back and forth and > utilize the dual band capability of my antenna. It works pretty well. > > What I would like to get some input on however, is how to run some power > with this setup. > > Of course the easiest would be to get a amateur dual band amplifier, but I > already have a VHF and a UHF (N1275A and N1274A) amplifier. > > What I would like to do is parallel these two amps with some kind of > switching/duplexer setup so that I could easily switch from VHF to UHF. > > My initial idea was to run an antenna switch from the convertacom to the > amps so I can manually select which one the signal goes to. Then on the > output side of the amps I thought about using an antenna duplexer on the > output of the amps to feed the antenna. I was also thinking of running a > switch to alternately select which amp was receiving DC power, but I don't > know if that would be necessary. (Could I leave both amps powered on in this > situation?) > > So, does this sound about right or am I going off the deep end? > > Thanks > Albert > > > -- "Always drink upstream from the herd."
