New mobile antenna install.

[NorthCOVideo]

Its not much, but its a great little antenna I bought on ebay.
All I need now it an adapter for my 396.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCANNER-MULTI-B...yZ149988QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[NorthCOVideo]

Portable Install add on.

Here's the portable setup I built tonight and had a start on previously. I going to be primarily used on our camper.

 

[NorthCOVideo]

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Here are some pics of it setup. The antenna I fold laying around, its a simple telescoping metal antenna, I attacked a piece of coax to it and it works a lot better than I ever thought it would.

 

[af5rn]

That looks more like something you'd run water through, not wattage! :lol:

What is it?

 

[RESCUE4NFD]

Nice setup..Very Detailed...

 

[NorthCOVideo]

What is it?

LOL, Its a portable mast I built for camping and other things as I don't get great signal up in the mountains with just a ducky.

I keep building to both this one and the one I put up on my roof last week, PVC is a great building material for some of these things. And ever since I got my new camera it enables me to take more detailed pics and more of them.

 

[af5rn]

I know it's a mast, but I mean what kind of antenna is attached to it? Is the antenna just for the 396, or something else?

 

[NorthCOVideo]

Oh guess I didn't understand your first question, yea's for my 396 or uniden/RS Pro-83.

 

[af5rn]

Cool! Height makes all the difference! Is the antenna made for no ground plane? Do you have it DC grounded somehow? I just worry if you are using a mobile antenna that is meant to have a ground plane that you're not going to get good performance.

 

[NorthCOVideo]

Not all sure just made the one antenna to try and it worked so hey. Guess maybe I need to study up in some antennas and maybe I would understand a bit more LOL.

 

[af5rn]

You mean the antenna itself is homemade? I thought you just built the mast setup for a commercially purchased antenna.

Anyhow, whips are -- with few exceptions -- generally made to be either grounded or ground planed in order to perform properly, which is why I ask. But you'll never catch me knocking anything that works! And I'm enjoying the hell out of watching your experiments, so keep it up!

 

[NorthCOVideo]

LOL, just building stuff to see if it works, trying not to buy things unless they're a really good price, like the mag mount in the first post. I would really like to build a discone, but its not looking easy.

 

[NorthCOVideo]

New mount, still getting ideas.

Here are some pictures of the mount I thought up tonight, with once again stuff I had around the house, didn't spend any money on it.

Oh ya to add, yes its a bit of a mess, need to clean that out one of these days.

 

[NorthCOVideo]

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Just need to find a BNC spliter and an adapter that will work for both of them.

 

[af5rn]

Just need to find a BNC spliter and an adapter that will work for both of them.

http://www.scannermaster.com/SP_1300_Combiner_Splitter_p/24-531025.htm

Or if you think you may end up with at least one more scanner running off that antenna, I'd spring for a 4 outlet multicoupler, and get the benefits of the built-in pre-amp too.

http://www.scannermaster.com/4_Port_Multicoupler_p/02-530557.htm

 

[NorthCOVideo]

Something to think about. I got a whole crap load of these
http://www.hitecsecurity.de/images/product_images/info_images/159_0.jpg
but there not of much use to me, oh and by the way if anybody is looking to buy some let me know I have about 90 of them.