Has anyone tried using more than one APX mobile connected to a single GPS antenna? I have an installation with 3 APX6500s all with GPS enabled. I don't really want to mount 3 GPS antennas. Since they are receive only I am guessing it may be possible to split the antenna to multiple radios however I assume they may be active antennas with DC power coming from the radio. Has anyone tried this before?
John
Multiple APX radios with single GPS antenna
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Re: Multiple APX radios with single GPS antenna
Easy enough to do, you can use standard satellite CATV splitters of the type with a power bypass on one port (that radio must always be active to power the GPS active antenna for the other radios to work). If you don't like F connectors or the insertion loss gets too high then there are lots of off-the-shelf units with sma connectors see:
http://www.gpssource.com/products/gps-splitter/
And
http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/e ... splitters/
PS: I have not tried these on a APX radio.
http://www.gpssource.com/products/gps-splitter/
And
http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/e ... splitters/
PS: I have not tried these on a APX radio.
Re: Multiple APX radios with single GPS antenna
I like GPS Source. Great people with good solutions.