Any sugestions on a good base antenna for the 800 MPSCS system that i can use for my online feed

[MattMarderosian]

I provide a online feed i live in a area where radio reception is really bad i am a retired Firefighter

I live in somewhat of a valley the radio antenna sites sit above us around 100 to 150 ft we even had terrible radio problems on the 154 band now the 800 is 100 times worse most of the Tower sites are within a 5 to 15 mile radius from me for the multiple counties

If you know where Rapid City MI is you could understand more i am 2 miles from the Antrim county line and 2 miles from the Grand Traverse County line

i am using a magnet mount antenna now about 12ft off the ground on my metal roof i can get out a ways just looking to improve the range out a bit

I am using a Home Patrol 1 scanner

Right now i can pull in Kalkaska Crawford Grand Traverse Antrim counties Wexford sometimes

I already have a pole up in place from a old scanner antenna

 

[krokus]

Are you wanting signals from one direction, or multiple directions?

 

[MattMarderosian]

Are you wanting signals from one direction, or multiple directions?

I ordered a magnet mount one from DPD since the one i have does really well the new one is double the length of the one i have now plus double the DB Gain

I am looking for multiple directions

 

[merlin]

A discone antenna with a run of quality coax is hard to beat.
With my bearcat, I get usable fringe 700/800 Mhz signals 65 miles to a site.
My discone is 6 foot atop a 2 story building with 65 foot of LMR 600 coax.
I have an FM broadcast trap. Most VHF signals need the attenuator on.
That distant site is much across flat terrain but not line of sight.
I get 3 UHF sites from a city 40 miles and a lot of RR VHF over low hills to 30 miles.
Airborne air traffic often 250 miles.
Antenna height is the key, my antenna is above most surrounding buildings.
I do get a lot of interference from a major repeater/cell site about 300 foot away.
Band pass filters help with that.
If you are looking to a single site, perhaps a Yagi would be a better choice.
Hope this helps.
Cheers

 

[MattMarderosian]

A discone antenna with a run of quality coax is hard to beat.
With my bearcat, I get usable fringe 700/800 Mhz signals 65 miles to a site.
My discone is 6 foot atop a 2 story building with 65 foot of LMR 600 coax.
I have an FM broadcast trap. Most VHF signals need the attenuator on.
That distant site is much across flat terrain but not line of sight.
I get 3 UHF sites from a city 40 miles and a lot of RR VHF over low hills to 30 miles.
Airborne air traffic often 250 miles.
Antenna height is the key, my antenna is above most surrounding buildings.
I do get a lot of interference from a major repeater/cell site about 300 foot away.
Band pass filters help with that.
If you are looking to a single site, perhaps a Yagi would be a better choice.
Hope this helps.
Cheers

I figured in the spring i would get the yagi use the magnet one until winter is over i have a Railroad antenna on my pole that is roughly 35 to 40ft off the ground can't do much in the winter tho

 

[MattMarderosian]

Here is the new antenna

 

[mass-man]

just for *^its and giggles, try swapping out the rail antenna into the HP1. Might get you thru the winter...but then there goes your RR monitoring. Guess there really is no free lunch

 

[MattMarderosian]

I tried that but the loss thru the 100ft of coax cable can hardly pick anything up on the 800 system lol

 

[krokus]

Do you have a TV antenna on your roof, or a tower? The 800 MHz allocation us reclaimed TV UHF frequencies.

With your DPD mag mount, do you have that on a sheet of metal?

 

[MattMarderosian]

Yep I live in a mobile home with a metal roof which really helps with the magnet mount antennas