80m/6m Duplexer

 

This duplexer was made so that seperate 6m and 80m antennas could be combined so as to feed the single antenna socket of an ICOM IC-706. It is a near standard design with one bodge capacitance added to improve the 80m match.

 

Circuit:

 

The 680p capacitor is a leaded silver mica, with all others being ATC700 or equivalent chip types. Coils are self-supporting, and the whole built onto a pcb, shown below as a guide:

 

 

Performance is as below [all views, 5MHz/div horiz, 10dB/div vert]:

 

 a) Return loss

ie, 30dB at 3.7MHz and 51MHz

 

b) Through response, low side

 

c) Through response, high side

 

d) Isolation between 80m and 6m ports

ie, 55/60dB between bands