Advice for multicoupler with notch filter

[hfxChris]

Hey everyone, I need a bit of advice.

I'm thinking about biting the bullet and getting a Stridsberg MCA204M. Right now my no-name discone is in my attic (honestly there's no name on it - ebay special), and will probably be moved outside above the roof line in the spring. I've got a fairly strong MotoTRBO repeater very close to my house operating around 164 MHz that was causing problems receiving VHF around 150-155 MHz, however a Par notch filter tuned for that by Dale knocks it out to the point where my BCD996XT can deal with it.

Does anybody see a problem with using that notch filter in line with the multicoupler? For now I would be hooking up my BCD996XT, BCD396XT, PSR-400 and Pro-2055 to it, however the Pro-2055 will probably be replaced with either another BCD996XT or a BCT15X at some point down the road.

I'm in a fairly RF rich environment on top of a hill here, and there are a few VHF fire repeaters about 30ish miles away that I can usually pick up pretty well, but I'm feeling that if I move the antenna to the roof and consider replacing the antenna with something like an OmniX from DPD, that should come in a bit better. I just don't want to add too much signal to the point where the notch filter can't deal with it, and I'm back to where I was before.

 

[737mech]

Notch and Multicoupler

Hey everyone, I need a bit of advice.

I'm thinking about biting the bullet and getting a Stridsberg MCA204M. Right now my no-name discone is in my attic (honestly there's no name on it - ebay special), and will probably be moved outside above the roof line in the spring. I've got a fairly strong MotoTRBO repeater very close to my house operating around 164 MHz that was causing problems receiving VHF around 150-155 MHz, however a Par notch filter tuned for that by Dale knocks it out to the point where my BCD996XT can deal with it.

Does anybody see a problem with using that notch filter in line with the multicoupler? For now I would be hooking up my BCD996XT, BCD396XT, PSR-400 and Pro-2055 to it, however the Pro-2055 will probably be replaced with either another BCD996XT or a BCT15X at some point down the road.

I'm in a fairly RF rich environment on top of a hill here, and there are a few VHF fire repeaters about 30ish miles away that I can usually pick up pretty well, but I'm feeling that if I move the antenna to the roof and consider replacing the antenna with something like an OmniX from DPD, that should come in a bit better. I just don't want to add too much signal to the point where the notch filter can't deal with it, and I'm back to where I was before.

Just speaking from experience with a similiar setup I think you'd be fine. I have the DPD LP and the PAR FM trap feeding a cheap tv/cable 4 way splitter. No problems at all put the filter before the splitter and the filter effect will be the same for all of your scanners. Use good LMR400 or 9913 coax to the antenna if the run is over 50 feet. The DPD LP is a little more gain than the Omni X and I personally think it's a great setup. I also live in rf city hell and had to add the PAR FM trap. Now everything works great.

Give it a try let me know about the Stridsberg if you get it, I was leaning that way also. Life's a series of upgrades right?

 

[hfxChris]

Life's a series of upgrades right?

And expenses! Thanks for the response (and sorry for my delay)