Is this involving one of the Union County sites on Palmetto 800? Both are single-cell so I wouldn't suspect simulcast distortion in this case. If you have an 800mhz antenna at your disposal, definitely worth a shot
Which is the better scanner
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mmckenna
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If the one you have does not work reliably, then adding another indoor antenna without a huge improvement in gain is unlikely to make a whole lot of difference.
800MHz usually penetrates buildings pretty well, however there's way too many variables for someone to tell you what will work and what won't work over the internet. An external antenna would be a better choice. Either add a second one (better) or get a splitter/amplifier and split off your existing antenna.
Indoor antennas only work if the radio system is designed for inbuilding coverage. No amount of antenna hocus-pocus marketing claims is going to overcome physics.
0.2 is 33% better than. 0.3. At least statistics wise.
nd5y
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0.2 uV is -121 dBm
0.285 uV is -118 dBm
The difference between 0.2 and 0.3 uV would be slightly more than 3 dB.
3 dB is double or half the signal level.
That by itself tells you nothing without reference to more specifications.
If you are comparing two different receiver models it tells you even less.
nd5y
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In this case that means nothing. RF doesn't work like that.
I said "statically"
I answered his question exactly how he posted it.
Bonkk083 is not the least bit technical so expressing db (logarithmic) vs linear (well.. linear) is not useful to him.
Just program those, and listen. That's what I do, and enjoy it.
wtp
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Ubbe
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For scanners at the extreme ends, an Icom R2 portable scanner that has a fantastic sensitivity of 0,15uV and a Realistic Pro2006 that has 0,5uV when measured with a signal generator. When I connect them to a roof antenna the Pro2006 hardly changes, it measures 0,55uV but the Icom R2 drops to 10uV, a hundred times worse reception due to lack of strong signal handling.
So it all depends of where and how you use a scanner.
/Ubbe
So it all depends of where and how you use a scanner.
/Ubbe
Too broad of a question. Define "static". Do you have an audio sample? Static from a weak transmission is different than digital emissions from a more distant station transmitting on the same frequency. Tropospheric ducting, particularly in the summer can cause emissions from more distant stations to come through
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JethrowJohnson
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Auto should be fine, but if for some reason it's using FM, then it'd probably work better if you set it to NFM.
mmckenna
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It depends on what you are listening to.
For public safety analog in the VHF high and UHF bands, you'll want narrow. For 800MHz analog, probably wide.
I have both scanners side by side is that to close together
wtp
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just leave it on auto, that just means it will use a preset modulation for the frequency.
mmckenna
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If it works, it works. Shouldn't be an issue.
