800mhz Yagi

I live about 19 miles from the nearest tower associated with my local city/county P25 sysytem. Using the radio shack 800 antenna, I barely picked up the system. I switched to a magnetic (Wilson) cell phone antenna, sitting on a small cookie sheet (ground plane) and on top of a tall book case. This improved the signal to 2 bars on my GRE 800, but I still had a lot of the digital garble in the traffic.

I took a chance and bought a Tram/Brownig 800mhz yagi from the antenna farm:

http://www.theantennafarm.com/catalog/tram-browning-br-6386-3585.html

Mounted the antenna in the attic, fed with 25' of quad shield RG6. The P25 system now comes in at full scale with absolutely no garble. A side benefit is another P25 system, Alabama First Responder Network, is also coming in at the same level even though its only tower is 90 degrees to the yagi @ 14 miles and in the 700mhz area.

Anyone needing a good directional antenna should consider this antenna.

I totally love them !!

I notice the ones lying on the roof, bottom right in your pic.

Do the antennas die and fall off like the tree leaves in the fall?

Old tv antennas....

NDRADIONUT, Do you have these yagis phased, or they being run individually? If so, do you know where I can get the information for proper phasing? I have a Wilson 8 element in the attic trying to pull in an 850 system 26 air miles away. It works somewhat with my PRO-106, but my 996xt is deaf. I'm using 25 feet of good RG-6 on this antenna. Its attic mounted due to the HOA. Thanks.

There is a pdf in there that has the formula for any freq. to do the harnesses...

http://forums.radioreference.com/build-your-own-antenna/109144-4-bay-vhf-dipole-array-project.html

I had 2x 4 bay antennas at first and later made them into 4x 2 bays to run more radios...