Hi everyone, i have a Diamond D130J discone. I'm up in North County near Oceanside. I can listen to the county RCS fine, I'm trying to pull in the City of San Diego im about 40 miles away from the city. I was wondering what can i do to try to extend my coverage? I was thinking of installing a preamp and a filter.
or maybe repositioning my discone, there are a couple of trees and power lines in the area which are of normal residential load im not sure how much this effects reception.
I'm running RG8 coax straight from the discone to a BNC to the scanner, i was wondering what adapters i could use from RG8>bnc for the preamp. These are the preamps and filters i was thinking of using:
WRP-2500 Pre-Amplifier for Wideband Scanners
http://www.scannermaster.com/ATT_20_Variable_Attenuator_p/24-531021.htm
I'm worried about overloading my scanner on the county RCS but i think it has a bypass and power switch so i could avoid this issue.
Please let me know what your thoughts are.
or maybe repositioning my discone, there are a couple of trees and power lines in the area which are of normal residential load im not sure how much this effects reception.
I'm running RG8 coax straight from the discone to a BNC to the scanner, i was wondering what adapters i could use from RG8>bnc for the preamp. These are the preamps and filters i was thinking of using:
WRP-2500 Pre-Amplifier for Wideband Scanners
http://www.scannermaster.com/ATT_20_Variable_Attenuator_p/24-531021.htm
I'm worried about overloading my scanner on the county RCS but i think it has a bypass and power switch so i could avoid this issue.
Please let me know what your thoughts are.
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