Luis_C
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Well, a few days ago I started to do my first ground plane antenna, but I didn't had enough wire copper for the radials, so with a plastic disk and some coat hangers we made like a base for the antenna, it has kinda good reception, but well, I just removed that base for testing, and I just have a N-Chassis Connector soldered to a 60 CM Stiff Copper Wire, and went out because is time when there's many airplanes a few minutes ago, but it was weird, because sometimes some airplanes were excellent, but I couldn't hit the tower, simply silence, but if I pressed ATT button on my PRO-95, I could listen to it a bit, but just a little bit, couldn't be understood, as if it were overloading my scanner, sometimes distortion from the tower, but ATT would do complete silence. Weird thing is, that if I left ATT some airplanes wouldn't be heard, and sometimes without ATT on, some airplanes would be heard, but distorted, so I believe that now this really was overloading, because if I pressed ATT signal reception now was great, but still tower couldn't be heard. It was about luck. Heard some distant Air to Air, really weak, but it was heard.
I also tested police, and it would always sound great, but in some cases a bit better with ATT on. Police is on VHF Hi. (156 MHz, etc)
Why do you think it was acting like that? What's going on?
I'm getting the radials hopefully soon. Do you think it will solve this kind of problems?
BTW, I have Belden RG8X Coax, about 7 meters.
Thanks
I also tested police, and it would always sound great, but in some cases a bit better with ATT on. Police is on VHF Hi. (156 MHz, etc)
Why do you think it was acting like that? What's going on?
I'm getting the radials hopefully soon. Do you think it will solve this kind of problems?
BTW, I have Belden RG8X Coax, about 7 meters.
Thanks
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