need help with direction of antenna

[Danminder9]

I live in south bend and have a yagi directional antenna 800mhz and I like to know exactly where to point my antenna for best signal?

 

[doctordialtone]

I live in south bend and have a yagi directional antenna 800mhz and I like to know exactly where to point my antenna

Generally, toward the transmitting antenna, but it depends what you are trying to monitor.

Details, details...

 

[Danminder9]

I'm monitoring some talk groups out of South bend on radio reference St Joe County Mishawaka and South bend

 

[Danminder9]

I'm not sure where their towers located in South bend

 

[Danminder9]

Running SDR trunk on Windows under now playing it shows a channel of power and peak but I'm not sure how to read that as far as having my antenna set perfect

 

[doctordialtone]

I'm not sure how to read that as far as having my antenna set perfect

I'm not familiar, so you'll have to wait for someone more familiar to help you.

Good luck!

 

[mmckenna]

Even something like a 6 element Yagi has 40º of beamwidth. Just point it towards South Bend. It isn't super critical for what you are doing.

"Perfect" isn't necessarily best. You want enough useable signal that you get a clean decode. Too much signal, or too much noise from other nearby transmitters can make things worse.

 

[west-pac]

What is the antenna connected to? Why did you choose a yaqi over a different scanner antenna? Is everything that you want to listen to all in the same direction from your house?