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Using separate RX and TX antennas for a repeater
- Thread starter cpg178
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prcguy
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Same here but all the sites I’ve used reserve the top rung for receive only antennas. I’ve always had better receive from a top of tower receive only antenna feeding a good preselector then preamp to multiple receivers. Never had any noise problems. I’ve also not heard of a problem like this except for a few specific systems that had something wrong like passive IMD from tower/antenna mount corrosion or something similar.
speedway_navigator
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I'm no expert in this but you do seem to be thorough in your testing. Knowing how RF varies I can see how other sites would respond differently.
Ubbe
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I've had a microwave link generate RF smog at a 10uV level from a 400MHz antenna 2 meter behind its dish. Moving my antenna 10 meter in front of the dish got rid of all the smog. It had to come from the electronics and not the microwave RF signal.
Some rotating top lights can be a nuisance, especially if they are the LED ones and its sliding contacts can behave differently depending of the weather.
/Ubbe
Some rotating top lights can be a nuisance, especially if they are the LED ones and its sliding contacts can behave differently depending of the weather.
/Ubbe
