Metal roof

[ruauper2]

Living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula dictates that a metal roof is a wiser choice than climbing the ladder and using a snow rake to get rid of snow build up. My question is how is the metal roof going to affect scanner reception? Placing an antenna in the attic doesn't seem wise but what about outside mounting? I've installed an outside TV antenna that's barely 4 ft. above the roof edge that is giving me excellent reception 90 miles from the station towers. Scanner reception is limited to about a 25 mile radius of my home because of geography and population centers.

Any comments are appreciated.

Al
BC245XLT, BC15X, GRE 300

 

[prcguy]

With the TV antenna that close to the metal roof the pattern will be pushed up away from the horizon a bit and reception will be degraded but a vertical polarized scanner antenna will be fine.
prcguy

 

[lmrtek]

any mobile antenna would work well mounted to the metal roof