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Thanks for the advice. I do have access up into the ceiling, however, the front of the building has a brick facade, and at the top of the wall near the roofline, there is a sheet metal facade in front of the bricks. So I’m not sure that going above the wall will help. But it’s worth a try if all...

I have a scanner in my office at work and the only thing I am trying to receive is a railroad defect detector about a mile away at 160.230. For a while I was using a wire-type antenna suction cupped to the glass. It worked well enough, but every now and then was a little weak. So I got a 10...

Mine too. I submitted a help ticket, but nothing has changed as of 9am Eastern.

I have two scanners for listening to the local railroad traffic. One is at home with a roof mounted ground plane antenna designed to cover the widest possible area. One is in my office at work with a window-mounted antenna designed to pick up not much more than a defect detector about a mile...

Good point. I guess I was seduced by the idea of a single function machine for a single task. But buying another BC225AT is probably the smartest route. I suppose I could also watch eBay for an old, slow scanner that would do the job when watching one channel.

I was hoping for something off the shelf... but the Raspberry Pi is the obvious solution. I guess I will have to learn the art of making Pi.

I have a remote scanning location (the windowsill of my office) where I have a scanner monitoring a single railroad frequency and broadcasting it via internet. Right now, I am using a Uniden BC125, which is overkill when monitoring a single frequency. Plus, I want to free up my handheld for...

A couple questions on my scanner setup: I have a copper j-pole tuned to 160-162 Mhz that I use to listen to railroad and marine traffic. Right now, I have the following cable run to get to the antenna: Antenna 25 feet RG213/U with PL259 male at antenna end and BNC male at scanner end 6 inches...

Thanks for the advice. Shortening the cable run is definitely priority one. Will have to explore the antenna options. I was thinking of a discone, but I like the idea of the marine VHF antenna.

I live in Saint Joseph, Michigan, and listen to the railroad and marine radio traffic. There is a railroad swing bridge over a navigable river, so it is quite interesting. Current setup is a home-brew dipole antenna (Homebrewed Off-Center Fed Dipole - The RadioReference Wiki) mounted on my...