So I'm thinking about changing up my base scanner antenna this spring.
I live about 1 street away from a building with a fairly strong pager transmitter (149.770 Mhz I think) on it (I can literally see it from my back door) and I believe it probably does affect a bit of my general listening and less than 5 km's away from another commercial tower with other localized transmitters on it including a weatheradio (162.425 Mhz) site as well. Also on this site is a local FM Broadcast transmitter (96.1 Mhz) at an ERP of approx. 7,100 watts. (The studio transmitter is actually closer (less then 1 km) to me then the main transmitter site (Less than 5 km's))
My overall listening is decent for my needs, however I know I can get further stations from my area and I feel that some of the other signals in my area are bringing in too much interference (intermod) surrounding the VHF/UHF/800 mhz band I want to listen to. My mobile listening actually suprises me sometimes in areas around town and in the rural areas.
My base antenna is currently a Jetstream JTD1 / Workman T601 Discone Scanner Antenna about 30 ft. off the ground.
I am thinking about changing it up to the following:
Comtelco A11331B-Y Transceiver/Scanner Antenna for VHF/UHF/800Mhz with NMO base (Which I currently use as my mobile antenna and works great) using a TRAM Land Mobile Base Ground Plane Kit hoping to lessen my gain perhaps in order to hear more stations distance wise. (ex. ctrl. channels for area trunking systems)
When I stand on my roof I can clearly see the paging tower right across from me 1 street behind me, and I'm right in the line of sight from the other communications towers a few km's away from me, which are on a fairly high hill overlooking our town.
You're thoughts on the configuration change up.
I live about 1 street away from a building with a fairly strong pager transmitter (149.770 Mhz I think) on it (I can literally see it from my back door) and I believe it probably does affect a bit of my general listening and less than 5 km's away from another commercial tower with other localized transmitters on it including a weatheradio (162.425 Mhz) site as well. Also on this site is a local FM Broadcast transmitter (96.1 Mhz) at an ERP of approx. 7,100 watts. (The studio transmitter is actually closer (less then 1 km) to me then the main transmitter site (Less than 5 km's))
My overall listening is decent for my needs, however I know I can get further stations from my area and I feel that some of the other signals in my area are bringing in too much interference (intermod) surrounding the VHF/UHF/800 mhz band I want to listen to. My mobile listening actually suprises me sometimes in areas around town and in the rural areas.
My base antenna is currently a Jetstream JTD1 / Workman T601 Discone Scanner Antenna about 30 ft. off the ground.
I am thinking about changing it up to the following:
Comtelco A11331B-Y Transceiver/Scanner Antenna for VHF/UHF/800Mhz with NMO base (Which I currently use as my mobile antenna and works great) using a TRAM Land Mobile Base Ground Plane Kit hoping to lessen my gain perhaps in order to hear more stations distance wise. (ex. ctrl. channels for area trunking systems)
When I stand on my roof I can clearly see the paging tower right across from me 1 street behind me, and I'm right in the line of sight from the other communications towers a few km's away from me, which are on a fairly high hill overlooking our town.
You're thoughts on the configuration change up.
