OTA TV + AM/FM combiner and splitter
I'm sure someone knows the answer to this and despite being an RF guy, my Google-fu is failing me.
I am replacing a Winegard crank-up antenna with a Magnadyne saucer. Old tube TV and zenith converter box is going too.
The Magnadyne has an embedded AM/FM radio antenna - which is good, because the roof whip on my coach just won't stay up. There are two leads - an RG-59 for the TV and something thinner for the radio, with a standard radio push-in antenna connector.
Here's the problem - I cannot fish the radio antenna cable from its location up to the TV antenna - different compartments in the roof.
What I'm looking for is a combiner that will allow me to multiplex the radio signals onto the TV cable - you can do this with a common splitter/combiner but you lose the AM I believe.
Not that I really need the AM - nothing on it these days but sports, church, and political gasbags.
If I can get it all on that cable I can split it out again before the amplifier and use the old VCR connection to eventually get it to the radio.
I'm finding stuff for CBs, but nothing for this application.
Anybody else try this/have a solution? Has to be passive - no power in either location unless I could do phantom power up the cable.
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