Hello everyone, I'm looking for another GPS signal splitter. My plan was to get a "generic" SMA splitter/combiner and a handful of SMA DC blocking adapters, but they are considerably more expensive than I had expected - and they all seem to be in China. If anyone (in the US) has an extra 4 or 6-way splitter w/ DC blocks that they are interested in selling, please let me know! Thanks! John KC1QLN millerjs.org

HI None of them mine: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144026433966 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/144026433966> https://www.ebay.com/itm/201036132548 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/201036132548> https://www.ebay.com/itm/112402977059 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/112402977059> https://www.ebay.com/itm/233189112130 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/233189112130> https://www.ebay.com/itm/293666952089 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/293666952089> https://www.ebay.com/itm/403461970783 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/403461970783> https://www.ebay.com/itm/132126337610 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/132126337610> (and on and on ….) The two way’s are tossed in since I’ve found it better to put a 2 way up front and then a couple of 2’s or 4’s ( or 16’s …) after that. There’s nothing magic about it. The cabling of this or that just seems to be easier. Bob > On May 24, 2022, at 6:37 AM, John Miller via time-nuts <time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I'm looking for another GPS signal splitter. My plan was to get a "generic" SMA splitter/combiner and a handful of SMA DC blocking adapters, but they are considerably more expensive than I had expected - and they all seem to be in China. If anyone (in the US) has an extra 4 or 6-way splitter w/ DC blocks that they are interested in selling, please let me know! > > Thanks! > > > John > KC1QLN > millerjs.org > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com

Hi John, The strategy that I've found to be most cost-effective is to buy a standard DC-passing SMA splitter off of eBay and then open it and solder surface-mount DC-blocking capacitors in series with all of the output ports. This can be done by cutting two close parallel lines in each of the exposed foil traces with an exacto knife and then lifting the isolated segment off with tweezers. Then, capacitors are hand-soldered over the newly-created gaps in the traces. Any 0402 or 0603 surface-mount capacitor in the 100 pF to 1 nF range should work fine. Here's a photo gallery of such a modification: http://u.forre.st/splitter/ Forrest On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:13 AM John Miller via time-nuts < time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm looking for another GPS signal splitter. My plan was to get a > "generic" SMA splitter/combiner and a handful of SMA DC blocking adapters, > but they are considerably more expensive than I had expected - and they all > seem to be in China. If anyone (in the US) has an extra 4 or 6-way splitter > w/ DC blocks that they are interested in selling, please let me know! > > Thanks! > > > John > KC1QLN > millerjs.org > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com >