Yes another thread about these 2 scanners I know.. So let me explain my situation, I live 1700ft from a cell tower and I currently have a Radioshack Pro-651 that gets frontend overload on the stock antenna and the radioshack 800Mhz antenna BUT does ok when hooked to my multiband dipole go figure. This is of course less than ideal as I like to move around the house and the XYL would not approve of more coax in various rooms lol. I've included a few pics 1 with good signal on the 800Mhz antenna but no decode and 1 on the dipole not a great signal but decent decode.
The problem is not present on my XTS3000 and it's stock antenna and yes I realize I'm comparing a commerical radio to a consumer receiver, so I figure it's down to the filtering and I'm going to buy a filter I saw at scannermaster and see if it helps any. I'm wanting to upgrade to Phase 2 but I also don't want to buy something I can't use so I'm looking for recommendations/suggestions.
Thanks,
Rob
K2RJJ
The problem is not present on my XTS3000 and it's stock antenna and yes I realize I'm comparing a commerical radio to a consumer receiver, so I figure it's down to the filtering and I'm going to buy a filter I saw at scannermaster and see if it helps any. I'm wanting to upgrade to Phase 2 but I also don't want to buy something I can't use so I'm looking for recommendations/suggestions.
Thanks,
Rob
K2RJJ