SOTABEAMS 2m BANDPASS FILTER

OK, I live within a mile of Olivers Mount a 7KW FM and Freeview TV mast on the outskirts of Scarborough. I bought this filter to test a theory that the mast was dragging down 2m reception at my home QTH. I had previously tried activating the transmitter site as a HEMA summit but failed due to RX swamping causing me to hear nothing. I took delivery of the filter on Saturday. On Sunday I hooked up a Baofeng UV9R and tuned into the mast FM broadcast frequency 95.5. On WFM the signal could be received with a wet finger on the antenna socket it was so strong. I put the 9R onto a loft mounted slim Jim and the signal was so strong as to be breaking through several hundred KHZ adjacent. I then put the filter inline and tried again. There was nothing! Not even when tuned to 95.5 could I hear a single thing. I determine by experimentation that the rejection of broadcast FM is very very good. I think dialled up GB7RW a local repeater about 15 miles away. This repeater is usually scratchy at my QTH despite being able to open it. With the filter inline the RX from the repeater was a full 2 S points up and now breaks my squelch! Although I got the filter for SOTA I can see it becoming a permanent addition to the shack setup to. Wonderful, well made and works!

One Reply on “SOTABEAMS 2m BANDPASS FILTER”

  1. Hey Bud, good to see you and thanks for the comments. I am sure we worked each other on 2E0WWV-L the other week? I have since made the filter a permanent feature of my radio backpack with great results. Another up side of having one is its ability to basically bolt on a bit of filtering to budget radios! My BF UV9R loves this filter 😀 73 Scot

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