I recently purchased an Advanced Receiver Research 2M pre-amp to use when operating on the LEO SSB satellites. I purchased the SP144VDG (24 db gain, <1 NF). They don't offer the lower gain, higher noise figure 2M pre-amps anymore.
I tried setting it up this weekend and when the pre-amp is on and I'm transmitting on the 70cm band, I'm getting a lot of audio distortion. When I tried this during a pass, my audio on 2M was barely readable because it was so distorted, but with the pre-amp off, I sounded fine.
I'm currently using a 2m/70cm Arrow antenna mounted on a portable Yaesu G5500 Az/El setup. When I spoke with ARR, they suggested it was a desensitizing situation and it may be due to the 2M and 70CM antennas being so close to one another.
Can anyone help or suggest some things I could try to eliminate this situation? Separate antennas? Some kind of filter before the pre-amp? The pre-amp sounds great when turned on, but right now it can't be used when I'm transmitting at the same time on 70cm, which doesn't help.
Thanks, Dave N2TEB