No reception

[kaly0956]

I can't get any reception on my Uniden Home Patrol with it's SMa antenna. The Grecom PSR-800 I sent back got excellent reception with it's standard issue rubber duckie. Also the last two Radio Shack scanners, (All hand held), got good reception here in my mobile home.
For some reason this thing only gets one bar (signal strength).
So after spending $500.00 I gotta go out and buy a base station antenna too?
Any idea why the Home Patrol is so weak in reception?

 

[kaly0956]

Got it!

I got it figured out finally.
When the scanner finally picked up a signal, I noticed the signal strength scale light up!!
I was expecting it to always show signal strength.