[TheList] Aerials

Fri Feb 9 08:59:44 AEDT 2018

Just buy a commercial unit that works fantastically. You want the MOBILE
ONE model SCATX 25mhz ----1300mhz reception. Get this maybe from Jaycar and
you want a base with cable to connect it to your scanner. I will personally
vouch for this one as the best commercially available scanner antenna and i
have 3 on vehicles, one in my bedroom and one spare unit.

And it looks good as well.

Rayc

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Brendan Sheehy <Shiters_r_us at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I find a 1m whip to work sufficiently on 75mhz 140mhz and 480mhz give or
> take you get a ¼ wave on 75, ½ wave on 140 & 2 x full wave on 480.
>
> As stated fine antenna tuning is only required for transmitting.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brendan
>
> On 8/02/2018 9:14 p.m., Grant Carroll wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> This may seem a stupid question to some of you but I think it needs to be
> asked - what is the optimum length for an aerial for a scanner receiving
> VHF communications i.e. the ESA and ESB bands.
>
> Obviously, it needs to be longer than a UHF aerial but what is the ideal
> length. I’ve used aerials of various lengths on my scanners and with VHF I
> find the longer the aerial the worse the reception after about two metres -
> in other words bigger is not better!
>
> But I’m sure there is someone on here who can tell me the perfect length
> and the reason for it.
>
> Cheers and thanks for your help.
>
> Grunter1.
>
>
>
>
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