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k9rzz

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Do you mean a wireless connection between the antenna and your scanner?

YOu could mount the scanner up at the antenna (like on your roof), but then you'd need a way to run the scanner ... unless you just monitor one frequency, then you'd just have to get the audio to you ... or turn the volume WAY up.

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GypsiesinthePalace said:
This may win the stupid question of the year, but here goes...........

Why can't the signal from a scanner antenna be brought into a wireless router, and then broadcast the same as a wireless internet system works.

Mark

Because we can't get hot and cold water through the same pipe at teh same time.
 

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Sounds like you're trying to set up some sort of repeater system with your scanner, in which case you would have to have a radio capable of transmitting the audio feed from the scanner.

And you can get hot and cold water through the same pipe, it just makes warm water...
 

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GypsiesinthePalace said:
This may win the stupid question of the year, but here goes...........

Why can't the signal from a scanner antenna be brought into a wireless router, and then broadcast the same as a wireless internet system works.

Mark
You can take the audio from a scanner and put it on a LAN, although I know of no routers that can take audio directly.

If you are asking about hooking a scanner antenna directly to a router, we are both confused.
 
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I stay confused, that is nothing new.

What I was trying to ask, just for my own knowledge, is the following:

Cable in from Antenna to a wireless router. Receiver to receive the router signal hooked to antenna input on scanner.

I was simply wondering why this would not work. Was not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Mark
 

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The goal being to have an antenna further away from the scanner and still remain portable? I don't think the scanner would have the ability to turn data into audio, so it would just use the piece of cable between it and the network adapter as an antenna.
 
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GypsiesinthePalace said:
I stay confused, that is nothing new.

What I was trying to ask, just for my own knowledge, is the following:

Cable in from Antenna to a wireless router. Receiver to receive the router signal hooked to antenna input on scanner.

I was simply wondering why this would not work. Was not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Mark


It is easy to ask questions.
You need to think through your questions, try to find some information on your own, and THEN, come in with try to ask specific questions.

Your question is a bit like someone asking; "How do I get from NY to CA?

There are infinitive answers including "you can't" if you forgot to tell us you only had an hour!
 

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If I understand this....

GypsiesinthePalace said:
This may win the stupid question of the year, but here goes...........
Why can't the signal from a scanner antenna be brought into a wireless router, and then broadcast the same as a wireless internet system works.
Mark

If I underatand this, you'd like to take your scanner antenna and run the coax to your "wireless router" so you could "rebroadcast or transmit" the received antenna signal through and out of your wireless router.

OK. Here is the problem with that:

Generally, your scanner is needing VHF Hi or Low band, UHF, or 800Mhz signals to receive properly.

IF you run THOSE signals through your wireless router, they are going to be CONVERTED to a 2.4Ghz signal.

Now, if you had a scanner the received 2.4Ghz, that would probably work great.

But, once converted, the signals received BY the antenna would be USELESS to the scanner on the VHF Lo or Hi bands as well as UHF or 800Mhz....

(I think, at least logically anyway...)

Steve/KB8FAR :confused:
 

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Why not explain it in reverse?

Tell us what you would like to see as an end result then we can work back to the source to try to make it happen.

If you want to listen to radio traffic on a PDA or laptop or other WiFi enabled device then yes it can happen. Basically you need to establish a live feed that streams the audio but it's not just as simple as hooking an antenna to a router. It doesn't work that way.

I don't think N Jay was trying to be facetious. He is basically saying the same thing.
 
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What I am trying to say (in the general case) is,
put as much thought into your question, as you hope people will put into the answer.
If you can not think of how much that is, then you probably have not learned enough to ask your questions properly, and you should probably either take the time to learn enough about the topic to ask a better question,
or,
ask a simpler question.
 
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You all are trying to make a simple question hard. I read it as he wants to hook uo his outdoor scanner ant to his router. In other words replace the inside ant on the back of the router with an outside antenna to increase the range of his wireless router. May help may not, just get the proper adaptor and it, won't hurt to try. Let us know.
 
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rfradioconsult said:
You all are trying to make a simple question hard. I read it as he wants to hook uo his outdoor scanner ant to his router. In other words replace the inside ant on the back of the router with an outside antenna to increase the range of his wireless router. May help may not, just get the proper adaptor and it, won't hurt to try. Let us know.

And had he put a few more seconds of thought into his question, we all would have grasped that from the beginning!

As in:
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This may win the stupid question of the year, but here goes...........

Why can't I use a scanner antenna on the roof in place of the antenna on my wireless router?
Would this be the same as how a wireless Internet system works?
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That "conversion took no more technical understanding the his original question!
 

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Well, if we're going to re-write the original question, I can read it as rebroadcasting the router onto the 'scanner frequencies' !

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k9rzz said:
Well, if we're going to re-write the original question, I can read it as rebroadcasting the router onto the 'scanner frequencies' !

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Point made!

My first interpretation was something like that also.
 
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