Apartment scanner antenna?

[thomasbillman1]

Do you have a balcony or patio?

balconi

 

[ridgescan]

balconi

Made by Italians?

 

[522]

Made by Italians?

Bwahaha

 

[krokus]

balconi

You could use a fake plant in flower pot to hide an antenna.

 

[iMONITOR]

Workman Scan4 $10.95

Workman Scan4 Scanner Antenna SC1

 

[ShorterWave]

You could use a fake plant in flower pot to hide an antenna

lf l had a balcony l could do that.

 

[ridgescan]

lf l had a balcony l could do that.

The frequencies you're after are extremely line-of-sight and your listening environment is trapped in a solid cage regarding this. popnokick and bob550 in posts two and three really had the best advice for you. Either the flat blade directional TV antenna, I say mounted on a pole/small tripod so you can rotate by hand to capture the strongest signal of what you want; or the mag mount on a sheet of metal, that "groundplane" metal may "gather" signals better than nothing for the whip to work off of.
Have you experimented yet with any of this?

 

[WB9YBM]

l have a R.S. PRO-51 analog scanner. And have a telescoping antenna that mounts on top of it. ln the apartment, l can't receive much. Going outside helps alot. l was thinking of a glass mount scanner antenna mounted to a window. l know it's not the best option, but probably the only option. This apt complex is built like a hotel-no back patio or back door. And the front door opens to the hallway not the outside. Do you think a glass mount antenna would be better than the telescoping antenna inside?

Possible improvement, yes. Depending on what you scan--like if you're listening to 150MHz and upward--a good base station antenna should be of a reasonable enough length to fit indoors (improvement #1) and getting it near a window (improvement #2) might help, too.