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

Good point!

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

I think you'd find the signal loss negligible on shortwave.

If you were DXing UHF TV I'd feel differently.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Wow, thank you, thank you and thank you to everybody who replied! Can't
believe the response and all the great ideas!

Yes, think I've got the audio part all worked out (through my amp and
speakers - excellent!) and makes it easy to record direct to CD or to tape
through my home studio setup (complete with compressor, noise gates,
expander etc). But the stuff about configuring my antennas is great!

Thanks again,
Mark.


"Mark" wrote in message
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Hi...

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? And what of using two antennas at once? Anybody
experimented with this? Any gain (no pun intended) in doing that?

I'm thinking of feeding all the record outputs to a small multi-channel
mixer. (I currently have a home recording studio, so I can then feed the
output to a nice amp and set of speakers).

Mark.