Hello all, I have a MMIC based car antenna booster, model hd-rx8, that like most antenna amplifiers, overloads the tuner front end when in the city where stations are already strong, but works wonders when in the boonies far away from stations (it actually amplifies well without adding noise, as well as not hammering the AM reception). The problem is that this booster does not have a bypass switch at all. Simply disconnecting the power wire while it is connected inline between the antenna and radio is not a solution, as it then has no reception whatsoever, and removing the device and directly connecting the antenna cable to the radio corrects the signal overload problem, but of course I then can't use the booster, as it's not connected.
Here's the deal: I would like to be able to use a toggle switch that turns off the booster and bypasses it, so that electrically and RF-wise the circuit would be invisible to the signal, where the circuit maintains the proper antenna/cable impedance and whatnot, but when on, connects the booster and routes the signal through it as if were connected in-line. Are there any circuits I can make that achieve this? I want to do this because the booster works when reception is overall weak, but when they are strong, I would need a way of bypassing it, since obviously I can't swap the booster out when driving down the road.