I figured I'd get some help with this one. I just got a Radio Shack PRO-2096 Digital Trunk scanner & was using it with an 800mhz beam I'd been given some time ago. Here's the weird part, I point the beam west & can only get local stuff right around the house but with the little telescoping whip that came withthe radio I get stuff miles away. Doesn't make sense! I have a 460mhz 6 element beam & it really brings in the distant stations. I have the 800mhz beam mounted just below the 460 beam on the same mast abot 30 feet up, could that be the problem or maybe that 800mhz beam really isn't what the guy I got it from said it was?(also, I'm using a fairly short run of LMR-400 heavy duty coax)
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!