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| Author: | forest3433 [ Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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. |
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| Author: | Rodentkj [ Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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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| Author: | forest3433 [ Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
BASE Antenna not portable, any good ones out there? |
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| Author: | N7QOR [ Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
forest3433 wrote: BASE Antenna not portable, any good ones out there? Discones are pretty good for multiband receive. |
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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
http://lairdtech.thomasnet.com/item/dis ... 24|3001314 You should be able to pick up the King County system with no antenna. |
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| Author: | K7CAR [ Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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= |
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| Author: | SpudGunMan [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
SpudGunMan wrote: this outperforms my discone for 800mhz I have one of those (got it here). I have found that it performs identical to the Radio Shack 800 BNC antenna.
http://cgi.ebay.com/800-MHz-Mobile-Ante ... 0615984002 just search 800mhz antenna on ebay, these things are cheap and last about 5-7 years before the weather eats them. |
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| Author: | SpudGunMan [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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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| Author: | Atomic Taco [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
SpudGunMan wrote: 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 Fixed the link. Yeah, they're cheap (I paid $3.30 in 2007!) but it takes a really long time to get here.
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| Author: | SpudGunMan [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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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| Author: | SpudGunMan [ Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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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| Author: | justabigham [ Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
forest3433 Are you on the west or east hill or in the valley? |
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| Author: | forest3433 [ Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
West Hill, great KC coverage of course but trying to get better coverage on Puyallup site. |
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| Author: | nickcarr [ Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best base scanner antenna for Federal way/Auburn area |
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 |
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