Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

Mark wrote:
I currently have four Sony HF radios which will shortly be joined a JRC
NRD-545. I also currently have two antennas, a longwire and a di-pole.

Time for a tidy-up! What does everybody do when they want to share two or
three antennas amongst several radios (short of constanly unplugging and
replugging everything)?

Can I simply build myself a switch box? Put each antenna onto a common bus
and use switches to assign to the various outputs that are connected to the
various receivers?

Can it be that simple?

Yep!

What kind of connectors do you have on the antennas?

A simple thing you could do is put PL-259 connectors (the same kind
generally used on CB antennas) on each antenna. Get a rotary coax
switch (available at ham shops such as http://www.aesham.com or
http://www.hamradio.com or http://www.mfjenterprises.com) for each
receiver. Use T-connectors and short coax jumpers to wire each antenna
to the same position on all five switches. That way, you can assign any
antenna to any radio.

Just make sure that those rotary switches would not ground un-used antennas.

The very best way is to use a amplified multicoupler, as others have stated.
Anything else results in signal loss.

But do what you want. It's not my signal you're losing!

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