Base Pre Amp

[JRM5204]

Hello,

I'm in an a apartment (2nd floor of 3 story building) I got a RS Pro2067 and a RS outside antenna inside the apatment and the factory back of the whip antenna installed. I'm still having problems pulling in UHF-T what my county uses for public safety. I wanna get a base station pre amp to try to improve reception. I read somewhere you can use a TV pre amp somewhere and was wondering if anyone used, uses, or knows what one I could try. I had a BC pre amp that worked well but I can't find it. I know they pull in trash in on VHF sometimes, but with the pl and auttenator (however you spell that) it worked well for me.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[godspeed]

It`s a toss up.

I live in a small rural area without to many strong transmitters and use one with decent results. I tried a radio shack preamp and it had way to much noise (SNR was horrible). I tried a preamp that came with my Time warner service and it had a much cleaner output. I used a FM notch filter(mounted beforethe preamp) to block the local radio station and it works wondersfor me for pulling in agood range of stuff not possible otherwise. Thereare the occasional images and random intermod that pop up but in my case it is acceptable. If you live near strong signals you may end up with worse results that without it. So my advice is to research better antennas and such first. If you do try it, do your homework and get a unit with low noise and a good range.You may also need a filter to block fm broadcast bands, pager frequencies, and a variable attenuator is nice to tune out overload. Hope that helped.

Eric

btw - also try to get the amp close as you can to the antenna to avoid line noise. I`m using mine in conjunction with a scantenna to help overcome the long cable run losses to my scanner after the amp.

 

[LarrySC]

Try a UHF 1/4 wave rubber duck on back of scanner. If you cant get a good signal with that on a 2067 then not much else would work. Good Luck

 

[JRM5204]

Thanks godspeed and LarrySC! UHF 1/4 wave is that the small stub antenna I beleive RS has them for Nascar monitoring? My father in law has one on his scanner along with the back of the whip and it does very well for the local stuff.