dispatcher812
Member
Since I have had a BCD436 in my car, I have had an antenna mounted to the rear fender, with an extention BNC Cable. I have complained since then, first time with a 436 by the way, that I was not able to pick up certain simulacst transmissions. I was told bt numerous people here that it is the way the 436 handles simulcast for Connecticut. OK. I excepted that. After having my first anteena stolen off the car, I purchased a new one from scanner master. Ths one was not tuend for VHF low. Ok fine. Seemed to work ok. ok. Still using the extention cable. Same performance. Recently I decided to try a second scanner in the car dedicated to rail and my local fire department frequencies. I placed the new one, a BCT125 on the car mounted antenna, still using the extention, knowing the antenna was not tuned for VHF Low and put the rubber duck on the 436. The 125 seemed to be seemed to be deaf only when in close proxitiy to rail and nothing on the VHF low. The 436 however, seemed to improve with the rubber duck, hearing talk groups and general frequencies I did not before. I then purchased another new antenna, this one tuned from 25- 1300. I placed that ont he 125 and put the older one, on the 436. The 125 came alive big time, the 436, still the same. I swapped antenna and with the new on on the 436, it came alive while the 125 was not. I took the extension off and the bothe seemed to do really well. So all this to ask if anyone else has experienced a performance issue when using an extention for BNC?
