sogs wrote:
Thanks for the info. I enjoyed your article. I noticed you use a
Scantenna. How do you like it? Any pluses or minuses you could give
me?


I love my ScanTenna. In fact using a combination of two Stridesburg
Amplified Multicouplers (seen he
http://www.milaircomms.com/review_st...rg_mca204.html) it drives 11
of the 19 scanners in the shack.

I can't think of any minuses at all. It is a non-dirctional antenna, so
if you have interference in the area you can NOT null it out by rotating
the ant in a different direction. Because of that I don't use a pre-amp
on the ScanTenna. However I've had many non-directional antenna
including $110 discones. The ScanTenna puts any discone to shame...

About the only think I've found that is better than the ScanTenna would
be beams such as the ScannerBeam or the Create Log P.

you might want to try a ScannerBeam (found at
http://www.AntennaWarehouse.com) to receive that one signal you're
trying to get. You might have better luck doing that, and if that still
doesn't work then add a pre-amp to the ScannerBeam. If you try to add
a pre-amp to a non-directional antenna you'll increase your chances at
picking up FM overload and other interference related problems. Not
saying it won't work but saying your chances will be better with a beam.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com