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Mark57 · 02-13-2007

I've been making a parts list and creating a design over the last few days for a Janus Project style stumbling setup. It's very doable. What I can't decide on is how to arrange the antennas and their connections to the cards. I want all the antennas to be amped with a mix of directional and omni types but my quandary is how to do that and still take advantage of the separate channel scanning of the 8 cards. I could do 8 omni's on the roof and look like an FCC unit driving down the road.

I suppose I could use two or four way power splitters and run one amped antenna for every two or four cards.

Insertion loss runs 0.4 - 0.6 dB for the two types of splitters. Any thoughts on this are welcome.

02-13-2007	#1 (permalink)
Mark57 What?? Join Date: May 2005 Location: OKC Posts: 1,240	Janus Project style Stumble rig I've been making a parts list and creating a design over the last few days for a Janus Project style stumbling setup. It's very doable. What I can't decide on is how to arrange the antennas and their connections to the cards. I want all the antennas to be amped with a mix of directional and omni types but my quandary is how to do that and still take advantage of the separate channel scanning of the 8 cards. I could do 8 omni's on the roof and look like an FCC unit driving down the road. I suppose I could use two or four way power splitters and run one amped antenna for every two or four cards. Insertion loss runs 0.4 - 0.6 dB for the two types of splitters. Any thoughts on this are welcome.