Hi everyone - Am enjoying my GRE-600 scanner. I have a lot of frequencies in the 150mhz range, aircraft frequences in the 120mhz range as well as several trunked systems. The reception is pretty good with the stock antenna, but there are many cut-offs. I was wondering if anyone would recommend a good, general use indoor antenna that would be better than the stock antenna that came with the GRE. Outdoor mounting isn't really an option for me, so I'll have to stick to indoors. Thanks for your assistance!
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Indoor Antenna
Howdy
I have had great luck with the 'Spectrum Force' from Scanner Master ($19.95). Small and compact an mag-mount, but we stand-alone as well. Have not tried on mobile.
Have used the antenna indoors on and off metal base and good coverage...used for VHF / UHF / Trunking and picked up well +20 miles.
Details:
- Covers 25-1300 MHz
- Height 17" including base
- Includes 12' of RG-174 coax with BNC connector to fit most scanners
- Unique 5 prong mini-magnet base.
Hope this helps.
Thx
Bill
Howdy
I have had great luck with the 'Spectrum Force' from Scanner Master ($19.95). Small and compact an mag-mount, but we stand-alone as well. Have not tried on mobile.
Have used the antenna indoors on and off metal base and good coverage...used for VHF / UHF / Trunking and picked up well +20 miles.
Details:
- Covers 25-1300 MHz
- Height 17" including base
- Includes 12' of RG-174 coax with BNC connector to fit most scanners
- Unique 5 prong mini-magnet base.
Hope this helps.
Thx
Bill
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Take a cheapo set of TV rabbit ears and rip them apart. Using regular RG6 coax connect the center conductor to the upper arm and the shield the the lower, and secure this to wood in the best way you can. Extend each arm to be 18" long and make sure they are mounted vertically.
Should you choose, you can modify the tuning by lengthening or shortening the whips for different frequencies.
I use this antenna as a half wave dipole for milair, but it acts as a 1/4 wave dipole for VHF and does outstanding on civilian air, which you seem to need. Even UHF comes in very well. I've been super impressed and tried every type of antenna indoor and outdoor over the years. This simple antenna does very very well.
Should you choose, you can modify the tuning by lengthening or shortening the whips for different frequencies.
I use this antenna as a half wave dipole for milair, but it acts as a 1/4 wave dipole for VHF and does outstanding on civilian air, which you seem to need. Even UHF comes in very well. I've been super impressed and tried every type of antenna indoor and outdoor over the years. This simple antenna does very very well.
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Even the Radio Shack magnet mount stuck to a pizza pan etc. will give you good results. 
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i would like to know more about your tv antenna for scanner operation....when you say arm what do you mean? would you happen to have a picture i can see ? it would work better for me....thank you Mike in KC
i would like to know more about your tv antenna for scanner operation....when you say arm what do you mean? would you happen to have a picture i can see ? it would work better for me....thank you Mike in KC
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Scanner antenna
i would like to know more about your tv antenna for scanner operation....when you say arm what do you mean? would you happen to have a picture i can see ? it would work better for me....thank you Mike in KC
i would like to know more about your tv antenna for scanner operation....when you say arm what do you mean? would you happen to have a picture i can see ? it would work better for me....thank you Mike in KC
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The arms he's talking about are the antenna's long sections used for the VHF frequencies (not the round part used for UHF).
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