malignantpoodle
Member
Here's the predicament, and hoping the good folks here can help me decide on what's best.
Getting a scanner and already I've been on the roof to look at mounting a discone antenna. Fun.
So the antenna is claiming a 6dbi gain. Fair enough. However, with the coax I'm using and length, the run of cable would constitute an 8dbi loss at 800mhz. Not being very educated on this and just looking at the numbers, would it be self-defeating to use the discone under these circumstances?
If the loss I get from the line is greater than the gain achieved by using the antenna, then wouldn't a rubber duckie antenna perform better, or am I failing to account for other factors here?
Thanks in advance.
Getting a scanner and already I've been on the roof to look at mounting a discone antenna. Fun.
So the antenna is claiming a 6dbi gain. Fair enough. However, with the coax I'm using and length, the run of cable would constitute an 8dbi loss at 800mhz. Not being very educated on this and just looking at the numbers, would it be self-defeating to use the discone under these circumstances?
If the loss I get from the line is greater than the gain achieved by using the antenna, then wouldn't a rubber duckie antenna perform better, or am I failing to account for other factors here?
Thanks in advance.