Chaos703
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I'm thinking of trying to put a Scantenna above the drop ceiling in my office building. There is about 3 feet of dead space between my ceiling and the concrete deck of the next floor above. The building is your typical steel reinforced concrete with an masonry (brick) outer skin.
My thought was to simply lean it diagonally between the ceiling and the brick so it's not touching anything metal and ... just see what happens. I don't have florescent light banks in the ceiling, just some halogen track lights.
I plan on splitting it into several old Regency M series scanners and a Pro 95.
Two questions, please:
1. Will I need to ground it to the building or do anything besides just attaching it to the radios?
2. Does anyone have any thoughts how it should perform? It's actually going to be fairly difficult and rather messy to install so if it's going to be a total waste of time, I don't want to try it.
Thanks for everyone's input.
My thought was to simply lean it diagonally between the ceiling and the brick so it's not touching anything metal and ... just see what happens. I don't have florescent light banks in the ceiling, just some halogen track lights.
I plan on splitting it into several old Regency M series scanners and a Pro 95.
Two questions, please:
1. Will I need to ground it to the building or do anything besides just attaching it to the radios?
2. Does anyone have any thoughts how it should perform? It's actually going to be fairly difficult and rather messy to install so if it's going to be a total waste of time, I don't want to try it.
Thanks for everyone's input.