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This could have been posted in many different categories, hope I chose the better one!
Longtime (40+ years) scanner here. I recently got back into the hobby after not being able to get my local Dayton, OH police on my older Trunktracker. I researched a bit and found my area is now on a P25 (Ohio MARCS-IP). I bought a BCD996P2 and was shocked to find the transmissions garbled and unlistenable. I tried lots of things, including bare wire, and TV rabbit ears, etc. Did more research and found out because of my location, I am probably picking up several multicast towers at once, causing multipath interference.
Well, today, by accident, I found that if my RadioShack rubber ducky was bent, the reception got better! So I tied a shoelace to the top of it, and bent it around and tied the other end on to the mounting knob on the side. You can vary the "bentness" by rotating the knob. It's not 100% better, but I'd say probably 75% better. Here is a picture:
http://oldbuckeye.com/bent_rubber_ducky_sm.jpg
Longtime (40+ years) scanner here. I recently got back into the hobby after not being able to get my local Dayton, OH police on my older Trunktracker. I researched a bit and found my area is now on a P25 (Ohio MARCS-IP). I bought a BCD996P2 and was shocked to find the transmissions garbled and unlistenable. I tried lots of things, including bare wire, and TV rabbit ears, etc. Did more research and found out because of my location, I am probably picking up several multicast towers at once, causing multipath interference.
Well, today, by accident, I found that if my RadioShack rubber ducky was bent, the reception got better! So I tied a shoelace to the top of it, and bent it around and tied the other end on to the mounting knob on the side. You can vary the "bentness" by rotating the knob. It's not 100% better, but I'd say probably 75% better. Here is a picture:
http://oldbuckeye.com/bent_rubber_ducky_sm.jpg