Hi everybody,
The question always comes up about having one antenna and using multiple receivers, so what to do?, I decided to write up some solutions and maybe make this a sticky on the antenna forum.
You can do a search on the antenna forum (Top right) about splitting your signal to multiple scanners/receivers and you will come up with lots of info that was discussed before. These splitters/Drop Amps or multicouplers go for really good prices on Ebay. Electroline is very popular with the people on RR.
Here is the Electroline website that shows an amp that many of us use because they provide 0 dB loss after splitting the signal in both 4 or 8 ways.
2400 series Unity gain
They also provide the splitters with amplification if needed. I use a amplified version and works just fine as I am in a low rf environment and not getting nailed with pager sites etc.
Here is spec sheet for these splitters with the forward gain info.
Amplified Versions
Here is another company that alot of people on RR use with great success. Stridsberg is available at Scannermaster.com
http://www.scannermaster.com/Multicouplers_s/43.htm
http://www.stridsberg.com/mca204a.htm for the 4 port version.
Stridsberg also makes a 8 port version.
http://www.stridsberg.com/mca208a.htm
Here is a very low cost but temporary solution for you to try but these lose many db's, but actually do the job for many people.
http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogSearchResultView?D=941322&Ntt=941322&catalogId=10601&langId=-15&storeId=10051&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntx=mode+matchall&recN=112046%204294967250&N=0&Ntk=P_PartNumber
I hope this helps.
Take care
Ron
The question always comes up about having one antenna and using multiple receivers, so what to do?, I decided to write up some solutions and maybe make this a sticky on the antenna forum.
You can do a search on the antenna forum (Top right) about splitting your signal to multiple scanners/receivers and you will come up with lots of info that was discussed before. These splitters/Drop Amps or multicouplers go for really good prices on Ebay. Electroline is very popular with the people on RR.
Here is the Electroline website that shows an amp that many of us use because they provide 0 dB loss after splitting the signal in both 4 or 8 ways.
2400 series Unity gain
They also provide the splitters with amplification if needed. I use a amplified version and works just fine as I am in a low rf environment and not getting nailed with pager sites etc.
Here is spec sheet for these splitters with the forward gain info.
Amplified Versions
Here is another company that alot of people on RR use with great success. Stridsberg is available at Scannermaster.com
http://www.scannermaster.com/Multicouplers_s/43.htm
http://www.stridsberg.com/mca204a.htm for the 4 port version.
Stridsberg also makes a 8 port version.
http://www.stridsberg.com/mca208a.htm
Here is a very low cost but temporary solution for you to try but these lose many db's, but actually do the job for many people.
http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogSearchResultView?D=941322&Ntt=941322&catalogId=10601&langId=-15&storeId=10051&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntx=mode+matchall&recN=112046%204294967250&N=0&Ntk=P_PartNumber
I hope this helps.
Take care
Ron
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