kkemper13
Member
I need a bit of help and guidence and hope you guys can help.
I have a GRE PSR-500 and it's mainly used inside my house but I do take on-the-go at times...which is why I bought this instead of a basestation. However, the reception in my area is horrible for anything other than my immediate area, and at times that's iffy. I just moved into a house with a nice hip roof that affords me the ability to mount an antenna in the attic and still have plenty of room to adjust if need be....outside is not an option due to the HOA. I'm currently looking at the D130NJ Diamond Super Discone and I'd like the ability to distribute to multiple rooms so that I can move the scanner to whatever room I'm in.
Ideally, I'd like to run from the antenna in the attic to my network rack in the basement (60' run roughly), from there it would enter a splitter and from the splitter disburse to whatever room I want a feed, with the longest run being roughly an additional 60'. I've looked at using LMR-400 from Time Micro, but I just don't know if that's overkill or not. Also, putting the splitter at the antenna and then distributing to the multiple rooms would probably be more ideal in limiting the total run of cable, but running multiple cables down from the attic poses some issues as I intend to use existing holes drilled for the OTA antenna wiring.
Is any of this flawed? Is there a better way...either in practice or equipment?
Any guidence is greatly appreciated.
I have a GRE PSR-500 and it's mainly used inside my house but I do take on-the-go at times...which is why I bought this instead of a basestation. However, the reception in my area is horrible for anything other than my immediate area, and at times that's iffy. I just moved into a house with a nice hip roof that affords me the ability to mount an antenna in the attic and still have plenty of room to adjust if need be....outside is not an option due to the HOA. I'm currently looking at the D130NJ Diamond Super Discone and I'd like the ability to distribute to multiple rooms so that I can move the scanner to whatever room I'm in.
Ideally, I'd like to run from the antenna in the attic to my network rack in the basement (60' run roughly), from there it would enter a splitter and from the splitter disburse to whatever room I want a feed, with the longest run being roughly an additional 60'. I've looked at using LMR-400 from Time Micro, but I just don't know if that's overkill or not. Also, putting the splitter at the antenna and then distributing to the multiple rooms would probably be more ideal in limiting the total run of cable, but running multiple cables down from the attic poses some issues as I intend to use existing holes drilled for the OTA antenna wiring.
Is any of this flawed? Is there a better way...either in practice or equipment?
Any guidence is greatly appreciated.