Tulsa OKWIN on creek

[skatertj]

Hey, Does anyone have problems receiving Tulsa on the creek? Particularly around NSUBA and Warren theater? I always seem to lose signal bad on the creek and am curious as to why? Im using my pro-106 with a 800mhz 2.5db rubber antenna since I'm driving a new vehicle. My last car was a Crown Vic and I had a 800mhz curly-q on it, it lose some reception but not as bad as with the rubber duck. Im tempted to put an antenna on my new car which is a VW Rabbit but there is only two options for me, mag mount or window. I dont want to drill a hole or put a lip on the hood.

Does anyone here use a laird 800mhz phantom antenna? One of these on a mag mount? ->http://www.theantennafarm.com/catalog/laird-technologies-trab8213-3292.html

 

[Freqed]

That is a fringe area as is the East main Toll Plaza @ 35th Street S, Try pluging in the Coweta site to help in the area you describe and see if that makes a difference in OHP coverage on the Creek, but not with Tulsa radio traffic. A better antenna will do you some justice as you have already guessed.

 

[N5TWB]

Your car's body acts like a Faraday cage to cut the amount of signal getting to your handheld's antenna. Using any kind of exterior antenna will improve your reception and shrink the fringe area somewhat.

 

[skatertj]

Alright, thanks for the replies! I live around the coweta area so I do have coweta site programmed in my scanner. OHP I don't have many problems with, it's just tulsa site on the creek. Does anyone around the area have experience with those phantom antennas on tulsa sites? I really don't want a whip on my car unless it was a window mount but idk if my tint is metallic or not. So figured magnet mount one of those phantom ones. I have an nmo cable still but idk if i can get myself to drill a hole in this car...

 

[KX5MOT]

The phantom antennas work the best in areas were you have good saturated coverage but once you get out away from sites they tend to not work well, in that situation the whip antennas work better.

 

[skatertj]

I got my phantom 800mhz in and installed. Works nicely in this area and does exceptionally better than the rubber duck i was using. On the creek, i still have the trouble spots, but i have found out that its interference from something, not signal lose. If I use the 106's attenuation feature, it helps.

 

[Freqed]

I got my phantom 800mhz in and installed.

What model did you get?

 

[skatertj]

I got the TRAB8213-Antenex Phantom Low Profile 821-896MHz

 

[mfolta1]

the problem is that when using a scanner in certain areas you will have dead spots no matter what antenna you use. The radios in police units are programmed in a way to receive from towers and are voted. I had 2 Motorola 800 radios programmed by the city. when I went anywhere they worked perfectly while the scanners lose signal etc. Example Sapulpa, on a scanner its dead unless on a hill, on the motorolas its perfect, loud and clear.