arion
Member
Hello;
I just bought a Rat Shack Pro-197 and am looking for a gain antenna that will do a better job than my discone I currently have. It's a good quality diamond discone but I live in a rural part of Michigan and have had only spotty coverage of the digital mpscs apco-25 system up here. The only tower I get real good sig strength on usually doesn't have a lot of activity.
I was looking around on scanner master and am considering the WBV-60 antenna but I can't find any user reviews on it. WBV-60 Wideband Base Antenna I'm not opposed to using a semi directional antenna as long as I can still get local VHF coverage off the lobes.
I'm curently already using LMR400 feedline to the diamond with the N connector on one end and the BNC connector for the radio. I'm basically looking for any user recommendations in fringe areas. The only caveat is I do happen to have a cell phone tower only 1/4 mile away and am experiencing some front end overloading on various VHF freq's already so I'll have to selectively attenuate the problem ones.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations!!
I just bought a Rat Shack Pro-197 and am looking for a gain antenna that will do a better job than my discone I currently have. It's a good quality diamond discone but I live in a rural part of Michigan and have had only spotty coverage of the digital mpscs apco-25 system up here. The only tower I get real good sig strength on usually doesn't have a lot of activity.
I was looking around on scanner master and am considering the WBV-60 antenna but I can't find any user reviews on it. WBV-60 Wideband Base Antenna I'm not opposed to using a semi directional antenna as long as I can still get local VHF coverage off the lobes.
I'm curently already using LMR400 feedline to the diamond with the N connector on one end and the BNC connector for the radio. I'm basically looking for any user recommendations in fringe areas. The only caveat is I do happen to have a cell phone tower only 1/4 mile away and am experiencing some front end overloading on various VHF freq's already so I'll have to selectively attenuate the problem ones.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations!!