Is it possible to receive the Philly Police from about 30 miles away using an outdoor discone antena??
I’m in south jersey and I can pick them upIf you're monitoring from West Chester, uh-uh. I've rarely been able to pick them up from any further west than oh say Conshohocken. Every so often I'll hit a "sweet spot" a bit further out if I'm in direct line of site to a repeater but I live in Audubon and no matter how high I have my verticals, zilch on Philly. 800mhz doesn't propagate as far out like VHF/UHF does
I was gonna say, 30 miles which direction? 30 miles to the west and you have no shot. 30 miles to the east and it's a real long shot but maybe a slight chance if you're in a very open area (no trees or obstructions for about 300 yards), not near any cell towers that can interfere with 800mhz signals...and btw what scanner or device are you trying this with?Is it possible to receive the Philly Police from about 30 miles away using an outdoor discone antena??
Not on 800 at leastYeah I doubt that would work. The 536 is really not a sensitive scanner at all.
Am I reading that correctly...only 4 antennas in Philly's system? That does not sound right to me.![]()
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Thanks. That's better and more in line with what I was thinking. I thought they have antennas in Center City and the Far Northeast, as well as the TV station antenna farm.
100% no. Although I have received intermittent transmissions, on a G5 with outside mobile antenna, at the intersection of RTE 1 & 322.Is it possible to receive the Philly Police from about 30 miles away using an outdoor discone antena??