RClary11
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I am particularly looking for retailers that sell scanners and accessories in London or Kitchener. I can't get to Toronto or Whitby unfortunately.
So shop online. Durham Radio (Whitby) and RadioWorld (Toronto) come to mind. Do a google search on them and your set.
Can't do that unfortunately, no credit card.
Okay thanks all, guess I'll do the online shopping thing. What I wonder is how big those discone antennas are since I was thinking of putting one outside of my ground floor apartment, and I don't want it to be too obtrusive.
Thats kinda a hard thing to do there pretty big and look pretty ugly to boot![]()
Thats kinda a hard thing to do there pretty big and look pretty ugly to boot![]()
Not sure what you mean by "'how big those discone antennas are". If you are going to order one, they come in a flat package about 3-4 feet in length. Once you receive it, you assemble it. My discone (in the attic) is about 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Hope this helps...Okay thanks all, guess I'll do the online shopping thing. What I wonder is how big those discone antennas are since I was thinking of putting one outside of my ground floor apartment, and I don't want it to be too obtrusive.
Not sure what you mean by "'how big those discone antennas are". If you are going to order one, they come in a flat package about 3-4 feet in length. Once you receive it, you assemble it. My discone (in the attic) is about 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Hope this helps...
What are you primarily looking to listen to? A Discone antenna is *fantastic* for wide-band coverage, but if you really only need a single band, you might be better off with a mono-band antenna. They'll give you much better performance on the band they're designed for. A Discone is designed to be wide-band, not efficient/have gain. For 800MHz, in the space taken up by a Discone, you could put up a 6db vertical thatd knock the pants off of the Discone, in terms of performance.
They aren't big and ugly either![]()