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What is a best anttena to pick up state troopers I have a scanner but with my antenna is not to be
My name isn’t Jim, I know nothing about “milcomm email lists” the question was asked about antennas and picking up AST, I offered my own experience with my HP2 and a multi band mag mount antenna on my metal roof, to put a bit of perspective on what AST troop I have in my scan list, the distance from from my antenna to the different transmitters in Troop D and one experience of what kind of radio traffic I had personally heard and the distances in relation to the base transmitter and the distance the particular unit had traveled from the Opelika transmitter in relation to the position of where I am monitoring from so the OP can draw his own conclusions and with the locations he could possibly look into the terrain and distance in my particular area and compare it to his location and make an informed decision.Your point is? You must be “Jim” from those milcomm email lists. He bragged about how far he could hear milcomms. Stay humble.
I Agree. That post did nothing to address the original question and offered no help to the poster.My name isn’t Jim, I know nothing about “milcomm email lists” the question was asked about antennas and picking up AST, I offered my own experience with my HP2 and a multi band mag mount antenna on my metal roof, to put a bit of perspective on what AST troop I have in my scan list, the distance from from my antenna to the different transmitters in Troop D and one experience of what kind of radio traffic I had personally heard and the distances in relation to the base transmitter and the distance the particular unit had traveled from the Opelika transmitter in relation to the position of where I am monitoring from so the OP can draw his own conclusions and with the locations he could possibly look into the terrain and distance in my particular area and compare it to his location and make an informed decision.
In no way am I bragging about anything only offering as much information to another user that they may find useful and do with this information as they please.
I worked in communications for a few years during my college years on a 800mhz Motorola Type 2 Smartzone system, I was studying journalism and I have an inquisitive mind so ever chance I got to interact with the person from the radio shop I did and I learned as much as possible about not only our system but others like at the time Auburn & Lee County’s VHF conventional system. I had the duty to patch OPD’s Events TG to LCSO’s Tac West VHF Repeater and to then called State Net 155.010 on Auburn University football home game days due to the multiple police officers from agencies across Alabama so they could all communicate with each other and Auburn PD’s Auburn University substation dispatchers.
I wanted to understand how all of these systems worked and I got a good education from the Motorola technician assigned to OPD’s maintenance contract.
Today I am occasionally called upon by local agencies on a conventional system that do not have a maintenance contract with any shops, these are poorly funded agencies in rural areas that do not have a large tax base to fund them very well and I do what I can in the scope of work I feel comfortable doing within my own capabilities and if it’s beyond my competency I refer them to call a radio shop that deals in whatever equipment they are using, some is a patchwork of different manufacturers and I do what I can voluntarily without pay to help these agencies out. Thankfully some of them have gotten grants to upgrade their equipment to modern equipment and systems like Mototrbo which I have no idea how they operate on a technical level only just the available information available online. It’s beyond my scope they have the funds to have a maintenance contract so I don’t worry about it. One agency in the past couple of years just installed a repeater for their municipal fire department and the chief had called me a couple of times to see if I could diagnose a problem and if I could I would if not I referred him to the Kenwood repair shop I know.
I do not brag about anything, I only offer my own experience if I have dealt with a similar situation and this is exactly what I did.
If you feel the need to tell people to “stay humble” you have offered zero help to the original posters question about their issues or questions and sir what exactly are you trying to accomplish play humble police?