During a recent QSO with my brother in law, Nico ZS4N we discussed amongst other coax switches and he mentioned that he bought a 6 way coax remote antenna switch kit. He assembled the kit and the switch is now daily in use in his shack. He regard this kit as a very good buy and indicated that the switch is working very well.
Description:
The antenna switch has good isolation effect, and it adopts imported Austrian high-quality relays.
Specification:
- voltage: DC 12V
- max watt can handle： 1500W
- Size: 11.8*11.8*1.6mm
- Frequency: 1.8MHz--60MHz
- Weight: 139g
The kit is available from Giga Technology in South Africa
Comment by Rassie ZS1YT:
And if you use a Yaesu radio that has "Band Data" output then you build a small box in which the "band data" output is converted to +12v at different points and then the antenna switch automatically switches to the correct antenna when you change the band on the radio.
ED. Thanks Rassie for providing the above information!
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