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Originally Posted by rabbit73
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The coax balun would replace the balun that comes with the antenna. With two antennas they must be connected the same way to keep the signals in phase. It's a lot of trouble for a slight reduction in loss, and keeping the coax ends waterproof is a problem. If I made one I would use a metal plate with 3 chassis F connectors like at the bottom of the 7777 housing and the coax would dangle down from the bottom. As Calaveras says in his diagram, the combiner is merely the 3 pieces of coax soldered together. The 1/4 wave matching line is just a piece of 50 ohm coax 1/4 wave long taking the velocity factor into consideration as is done with the balun. I would look for an F connector T adapter to do it.
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Thanks for the info rabbit73. I think my noise margins are too low to make a stacked antenna a huge helper, especially with only default 2.5 dB gain (we get a ton of rain storms here April - September, so any homemade combiner would certinally get wet).
I decided to go with 1 XG91 and see how it does at 20 feet with a rotor. I imagine it would out preform my HDB8X, solely on the fact that I replaced the default combiner on it with a ChannelPlus combiner, to not block out my local Fox on VHF. This has to be giving it some loss.
But thanks again for the help.