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any advise for best base antenna for receiving King County/Tacoma/Puyallup 800mhz systems and sometimes vhf/uhf. Connected to Uniden 996xlt upgrading from 780xlt. thanks in advance
ps currently can not pick up Puyallup site, but do sometimes get tacoma, and always KC, using indoor antenna.

The Shack 800Mhz tuned antenna is a great deal for 20 bucks.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102525

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BASE Antenna not portable, any good ones out there?

Discones are pretty good for multiband receive.

http://lairdtech.thomasnet.com/item/dis ... 24|3001314

You should be able to pick up the King County system with no antenna.

I've been happy with the Antenna Craft ST-2. I have it mounted up about 35 ft. Held up well to the winds I get out here by Monroe and 3-4 heavy snows. I see it's gone up $6 to $33.95 at http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?mc=03&p=ST2&d=AntennaCraft-ST2-Scanner-Antenna-Kit-with-50-Foot-Cable-%28ST2%29&c=TV%20Antennas&sku=

this outperforms my discone for 800mhz

http://cgi.ebay.com/800-MHz-Mobile-Ante ... 2a0d8d3382

just search 800mhz antenna on ebay, these things are cheap and last about 5-7 years before the weather eats them.

If you want to kick it up a notch stick it to something metal for a sudo ground plane cut a coffee can bottom out with a can opener and use that for example.

it dont need to cost a lot to work well.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

I have one of those (got it here). I have found that it performs identical to the Radio Shack 800 BNC antenna.

edited use link ^^

yea I was going to link there (from that old thread you started) but the link was dead, also just clicked on your new link and its dead. last time you posted that I purchased a few from that seller.. do you remember where they came from? I was just looking for another one as I snipped the cord on one in my truck.. ebay has them for about 20 bucks and I dont remember paying that much for them

3 bucks is more what I remember paying! gonna pick up another box of them.. cant ever have too many of these boogers

thanks taco saved me some google time to remember where we got them from back in the day

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Fixed the link. Yeah, they're cheap (I paid $3.30 in 2007!) but it takes a really long time to get here.

just purchased a handful of them again, I always end up handing them out or breaking them somehow so I never have spares. thanks for the link. I needed to waste some money today.. haha

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

haha not kidding on the slow delivery.. I placed a order on Jan 24

it just went to shipping today

Shipping is expected to take 12-15 business days..


get what you pay for...

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

forest3433

Are you on the west or east hill or in the valley?

West Hill, great KC coverage of course but trying to get better coverage on Puyallup site.

Check out this: DPD just upgraded their 700-1000 UHF antenna to include VHF. From the description, it sounds like he can customize the VHF/UHF part based on your needs.
Put up two for permanent mounting or have one on a rotator!

http://dpdproductions.com/page_scanner.html#uhflp

PS. I have the original 700-1000 antenna and it works great. I can get almost all of the trunking sites in the tri-county area.

-Nick