Charlotte scanner

[dancrosoft]

I live in Davidson. It on my base scanner. I hear everything nice an clean .On the meck tower . But from my bc436hp and my homepatrol 1 I get nothing my be 1 bar . I have try the moorsville tower .I get 5 bars on my bc436hp and my home patrol .I only get Cornelius PD. Now only if I could get the moorsville tower to work for me I would be happy .

Yea I have thought about a Yagi but it pss me off that I have to go that route. I can put my g5 on the floor in the bathroom in the middle of the house and I still have 5 bars... Should not have to compensate with a different antenna due to bad receiver designer by a manufacture in my opinion. It could be just the nature of the beat I assume. G5 being dedicated to 700-800 vs SDS100 receiving all. Still @ $600. it should just work with a rubber duck if we are in decent range of a tower.

My thoughts - if a cop can sit in my living room and hear/talk on his radio, any scanner should be able to listen all the same with the same antenna.

 

[Soundman]

I wish scanner work like police radios . Some people make scanner from police radios . I put my yagi in my game room .Have you tried a https://www.scannermaster.com/REMTRONIX_800_MHz_Portable_BNC_Antenna_p/22-541122.htm I have the radio shack ones. I got 5 of them when thy were closing .Thy were very cheep . I just don't understand . Before I could get meck one here . But thy must have done something to there tower or uniden and there stupped update my have screwed something up .

 

[dancrosoft]

I wish scanner work like police radios . Some people make scanner from police radios . I put my yagi in my game room .Have you tried a https://www.scannermaster.com/REMTRONIX_800_MHz_Portable_BNC_Antenna_p/22-541122.htm I have the radio shack ones. I got 5 of them when thy were closing .Thy were very cheep . I just don't understand . Before I could get meck one here . But thy must have done something to there tower or uniden and there stupped update my have screwed something up .

I use an actual Motorola 800mhz antenna. (Same one that goes on the police radios). I get them off ebay for cheap.

 

[Soundman]

I got my Yagi hook to my 536hp .I forgot about the wifi hook up so I updated it .Now I can hear the radio on my apple phone and ipad . It is so cool .If you have a 536hp and a yagi and a apple phone you can run your scanner with the apple phone or ipad . The apple one look really cool it looks just like a home patrol 1 .

 

[steelfed]

My Radio Shack Pro 106 has very poor audio quality when monitoring Charlotte-Meck police despite strong signal. Do I need a newer scanner?

 

[dancrosoft]

My Radio Shack Pro 106 has very poor audio quality when monitoring Charlotte-Meck police despite strong signal. Do I need a newer scanner?

We have talked about that in this thread towards the end: https://forums.radioreference.com/u...00-1-issue-fixed-one-remains.html#post3016888

Short answer is yes but make sure you do your research. If you are willing to learn a somewhat new way of doing things - a Unication G5 works flawlessly. Not channel hold tho.. SDS100 is the only other option.

CLT USAI does not work well on ANY other scanner I own. TRX1 and couple gen behind Uniden (both claim to support P25 and both useless on USAI).

 

[garys]

Rather than start a whole new thread, I thought to post this here. I'm in the panhandle of Lancaster County. Most of the time I can't receive the control channel for the Mecklenburg simulcast. I'm staying right off of 521, about 5 miles south of the state line.

I'm limited to a 436HP with a RS800 rubber ducky antenna. I can receive the Union County site, but I don't expect that will carry Charlotte traffic on a regular basis.

What is the "normal" coverage of the Mecklenburg simulcast? I know that normal varies widely, but wonder if I'll get a lot of improvement with a mag mount closer to a window.

 

[WeBeCinYa]

I use a Larsen NMO 150/450/800 Antenna with magnetic mount on my truck for my 436HP and it works really well in the area.

 

[dancrosoft]

Rather than start a whole new thread, I thought to post this here. I'm in the panhandle of Lancaster County. Most of the time I can't receive the control channel for the Mecklenburg simulcast. I'm staying right off of 521, about 5 miles south of the state line.

I'm limited to a 436HP with a RS800 rubber ducky antenna. I can receive the Union County site, but I don't expect that will carry Charlotte traffic on a regular basis.

What is the "normal" coverage of the Mecklenburg simulcast? I know that normal varies widely, but wonder if I'll get a lot of improvement with a mag mount closer to a window.

I say try it. Get the one on amazon that is like 13 bucks. If that makes things better - spring for a better one with more gain if you need it.

My SDS100 was/is super crappy on a rubber duck. It is acceptable on the cheap mag mount.

I know I am beating a dead horse but I have to point out again that my G5 has none of these issues even with the tiny nub antenna that comes with it.

 

[garys]

Sitting at CLT waiting for my flight. The simulcast is coming in perfectly. Apparently, it's just my location in Lancaster County.