w2edv
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Hi Everyone,
I just bought a 396XT and plan to use it in my car. I want to purchase a good multi-band antenna, and I'll mount it on the passenger-side of the rear hatch on my Subaru Forester. The driver-side of the hatch is the home of my vhf/uhf transceiver stick. I'll mount the scanner antenna using a Diamond K412SNMO mount because it is adjustable in 2 dimensions.
I've read about the Austin Spectra and it looks appealing, but I've read comments where some users consider it a bit fragile. I was hoping to use as much of the scanner's freq range (25-1300) as possible.
Does anyone have any comments about the Spectra, good or bad, and can anyone offer other antenna recommendations?
I've looked at this so much I'm getting myself confused - TMI, I think.
thanks in advance/73
w2edv
I just bought a 396XT and plan to use it in my car. I want to purchase a good multi-band antenna, and I'll mount it on the passenger-side of the rear hatch on my Subaru Forester. The driver-side of the hatch is the home of my vhf/uhf transceiver stick. I'll mount the scanner antenna using a Diamond K412SNMO mount because it is adjustable in 2 dimensions.
I've read about the Austin Spectra and it looks appealing, but I've read comments where some users consider it a bit fragile. I was hoping to use as much of the scanner's freq range (25-1300) as possible.
Does anyone have any comments about the Spectra, good or bad, and can anyone offer other antenna recommendations?
I've looked at this so much I'm getting myself confused - TMI, I think.
thanks in advance/73
w2edv