Yes indeed its a depends since in the original thread there was not a specific requirement. But as you say its a design. If you do not want to design makes more sense to grab a ebay wonder I suspect. For me I had fun designing and saving a buck. 8 ports verses 2... Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All - > > I do not believe there is a hard Yes or No answer for this question. > It depends upon the performance specification of the system elements > and the system requirements. > > For instance if the leakage of noise and discrete signals from each > receiver out > of the antenna port combined with the port to port isolation of the power > divider > is below the level of harm to the associated receivers then the answer is > yes. > Otherwise NO. > > The issue of antenna power is simply solved by placing a DC block in the > line from the splitter to > all but one of the receivers. It then powers the antenna for all of them. > I use this system with > a 3 way splitter and 3 T bolts. More elaborate and redundant schemes are > possible with a bit of engineering. > > I have several of the receivers developed by Novatel for the early WASS > project experiments. > These boxes used 3 receivers as both L1 and L2 were involved. > > A standard Mini Circuits power splitter was employed to feed the antenna > to all 3. Apparently that > sufficed for what was a pretty demanding requirement. > > Finally - Anyone advocating a hard Yes or No to this question without > first considering the performance > numbers for the system elements has been smoking their view-graphs. With > proper design it is totally > feasible to feed a number of receivers from one antenna. > > -john k6iql > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
