Montreal Fire channels with my BCD 536HP

[zapper1948]

Craziest thing. I put my new Hg vertical base scanner antenna on a horizontal level and now I am getting the Montreal Fire channels, but only in the morning and many times the voice sounds like it is underwater.

 

[BC_Scan]

Suggesting you need to re-orient the antenna , WTH is Hg ? Can you point to a picture or URL. Google is not feeling the love ???
Do you mean simplex or the trunk system ?

 

[mciupa]

WTH is Hg ? Can you point to a picture or URL. Google is not feeling the love ???

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[zapper1948]

I added an inexpensive pre amp between my coax and unit and now the fire channels are flowing like water. Go figure!
BTW, I am using the small inexpensive pre-amp without any power supply.

 

[jonwienke]

If it has no power supply then it is not an amplifier. It might be some type of filter, but an amplifier has to have a power supply.

 

[zapper1948]

If it has no power supply then it is not an amplifier. It might be some type of filter, but an amplifier has to have a power supply.

Really! I didn't know that. You mean a guitar amp has to be powered also? Wow.

 

[jonwienke]

The power supply may be a battery instead of a wall wart. But an amplifier has to have some energy source to amplify the input signal.