home brew antenna info

[harlan_pepper]

I was looking into building a outdoor antenna for my BCT15x. Would this do okay for general police scanning?
Homebrewed Off-Center Fed Dipole - The RadioReference Wiki

I know im not gonna get wide and reception but will it be a lot better then the stock ant?

Any one build one? Should I build something else?

Would it be better to buy something?

Just trying to get an idea of what I should do. Thanks!

 

[flythunderbird]

What frequencies are you trying to listen to?

 

[rbm]

I was looking into building a outdoor antenna for my BCT15x. Would this do okay for general police scanning?
Homebrewed Off-Center Fed Dipole - The RadioReference Wiki

I know im not gonna get wide and reception but will it be a lot better then the stock ant?

Any one build one? Should I build something else?

Would it be better to buy something?

Just trying to get an idea of what I should do. Thanks!

I've had a few of them over the years.
They work great for local VHF, Civilian and Military air, and SatCom.

NOT great for the 800 MHz band.

But, they're easy enough to build and try out.

Rich

 

[dmg1969]

I built one and had pretty good results in the VHF low to UHF range. I really don't monitor anything in the 800 MHz range, so I can't testify to that. As rbm said, I can't imagine that it would do very well on 800.


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[harlan_pepper]

Thanks for the help. Most of our police and fire are on 800MHz now a days tho. I might have to buy something...