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Re: Topband: TX/ RX Antenna Switching

To: "Buck wh7dx" <wh7dx@hawaii.rr.com>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: TX/ RX Antenna Switching
From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Reply-to: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:07:28 -0500
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By the way Buck, there is more to this than some people will tell you.

The DXE switch uses a unique RF limiter that kicks in hard at about 23 dBm. Below that level there is no intermod at all!! It will not deteriorate the receiver, like normal cheap back-to-back diode systems.

If you need a receiver limiter and do not want to hurt receiver dynamic range on modern receivers, it takes far more circuitry than cheap back-to-back diodes.

73 Tom
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