[TheList] Car mounted antenna

Sat Sep 11 20:18:56 AEST 2021

I actually did that once, many years ago, well it was more a splitter I'd bought off ebay... so I could still have a FM broadcast radio.  It worked really poor attached to a UBCT8, but it was using the factory antenna in the glass.  I then moved to a glass mount aerial which also was hot garbage.. don't recommend either options at all. 

A year ago I purchased https://www.amazon.com/MFJ-Enterprises-Original-MFJ-310-Handheld/dp/B00OAHD2LS/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=mfj+window&qid=1631354890&sr=8-3  and a bnc whip similar to 

https://www.amazon.com/HYS-Telescopic-Antenna-BNC-14inch/dp/B07RD4K77T/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?crid=14V2NG6138RIW&dchild=1&keywords=hx400+antenna&qid=1631355123&sprefix=hx400+&sr=8-6

for playing around with, in the work car ... it's shit with my sds100 on ESA band (as expected, the scanner performs very poorly there) but does alright for everything higher.  Of course, I can't imagine it would like getting wet, and easy for someone to pinch the aerial given it's just a BNC, but could be alright. 

Another option could be to go to a radio company, we often would have a few old aerials from customers that changed from VHF to Fleetlink or old whips that'd work on a GME base.  You'd still need a suitable bracket, coax and BNC but yeah 

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On 11 September 2021 8:46:24 pm NZST, Radio Scanner <rs157950 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Could maybe make an Adapter to connect into your Cars existing FM 
>Antenna (Broadcast Radio is rubbish and full of ads anyway)
>
>On 11/09/2021 7:52 p.m., Darryl Healy wrote:
>> Does anyone have a car mounted antenna that they don't want and would 
>> be willing to sell or giveaway this item?
>>
>> Only for use with a scanner so doesn't have to be tuned as such, a 
>> longer whip antenna would be ideal. Otherwise open for anything.
>> Located South Island, in Wellington this weekend or can pay shipping.
>>
>> Cheerz
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