Re: diversity receive antennas

Posted by MontyS on Jan 09, 2012; 11:54am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/diversity-receive-antennas-tp7165975p7167566.html

Here is another vote for Pixel Technologies active loop.  Because its preamp is keyed off when you transmit, its separation from the transmit antenna is less important.  Pixel went out of its way to be sure QSK works smoothly.  My 80 meter dipole runs within 20 feet of it without problems.

It has very good signal capture and does not require gain settings different from the transmit antenna.  It works through 10 meters, but not 6 meters.  Mine is on an inexpensive RCA TV rotor with 16 memories.  Switching to diversity mode always achieves different receive characteristics, but as many have noted diversity is most useful on weak, fading signals.

Monty K2DLJ

On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:25 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> What do folks use for diversity receive antennas.
>
> Do you have a dedicated receive antenna or just a different TX antenna
> from the antenna farm.
>
> I am looking for ideas on what to do next as I have the big loop and the
> dipole.
>
> Right now I have no idea on what I should do next.
>
> Thanks
> Don
>
> ~73
> Don
> KD8NNU
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