BOBRR
Member
Hello,
Fairly new at this scanning hobby, although have been a sw listener for a long time.
Will be buying a handheld soon, probably a GRE 500, and have the following questions, please:
a. These new scanners have freq. coverages down to around 25 MHz or so.
For the life of me, I just can't understand how the supplied quite short antenna they supply with handhelds can receive anything around 25 MHz. I imagine they do, as the antenna comes with the unit, and the unit itself has freq. coverage that low.
I would think that the antenna, below perhaps 50 MHz or so would be totally deaf. I don't mean really-poor, I mean deaf.
Obviously, I am missing something. What ?
How does it possibly work (at all) below 50MHz, being so short ?
b. I've read many of the suggested after marrket antennas.
I realize that longer is better, and that the ones tuned to a particular band or two are much better than the so called all-band ones.
Of all the ones suggested, and with your own experiences, is there one in particular that you would recommend with the following criteria:
I really don't want to switch them, and want only a single antenna.
I want to be able to listen most anywhere over the unit's freq. capabilities.
- no more than a foot in length
- truly all band performance, 25 MHz to perhaps 1.2 GHz, realizing a whole bunch of compromises and "not so great" performance at the extremes.
Thanks,
B.
Fairly new at this scanning hobby, although have been a sw listener for a long time.
Will be buying a handheld soon, probably a GRE 500, and have the following questions, please:
a. These new scanners have freq. coverages down to around 25 MHz or so.
For the life of me, I just can't understand how the supplied quite short antenna they supply with handhelds can receive anything around 25 MHz. I imagine they do, as the antenna comes with the unit, and the unit itself has freq. coverage that low.
I would think that the antenna, below perhaps 50 MHz or so would be totally deaf. I don't mean really-poor, I mean deaf.
Obviously, I am missing something. What ?
How does it possibly work (at all) below 50MHz, being so short ?
b. I've read many of the suggested after marrket antennas.
I realize that longer is better, and that the ones tuned to a particular band or two are much better than the so called all-band ones.
Of all the ones suggested, and with your own experiences, is there one in particular that you would recommend with the following criteria:
I really don't want to switch them, and want only a single antenna.
I want to be able to listen most anywhere over the unit's freq. capabilities.
- no more than a foot in length
- truly all band performance, 25 MHz to perhaps 1.2 GHz, realizing a whole bunch of compromises and "not so great" performance at the extremes.
Thanks,
B.
