Jim,
A local club station that I operate from uses three of Ameritron's
RCS-4 remote coax switches to do what you are describing. We
are feeding each of them through over 1100 ft of 7/8 hardline
(we have 3 hardline runs between our shack and the antenna
farm) and they have worked fine. The RCS-4 allows up to 4
antennnas to share 1 coax feedline. Control signals are sent
up the cable.
http://www.ameritron.com/products.php?prodid=RCS-4
73 de Mike, W4EF.........................
----- Original Message -----
From: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
To: "boatanchors" <boatanchors@theporch.com>; "tentec"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Cc: "Greg Lamping" <GLamping@stxavier.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:45 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Wanted Heath HD-1481 Antenna Switch
Y'all,
I'm trying to get the St. Xavier High School Radio Club in Cincinnati a
way of getting a few more HF antennas up without having to pull any more
wires through their already overstuffed conduit. They have a tri-band
beam fed with coax and several coax fed VHF and UHF antennas up already
with coax for these antennas and two fully utilized rotor cables all going
through the conduit. If I could find them a Heathkit HD-1481 Antenna
Switch it would allow them to switch the tri-band beam feed line to
several other HF antennas, and it would send the control signals for the
switch up the same feed line so they wouldn't have to install yet another
control cable.
1 - Does anyone on the reflector have a lead as to where I could find an
HD-1481?
2 - Does anyone on the reflector have any other suggestions?
Thanks much!
Jim Hanlon, W8KGI
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