Anybody know where I can order a replacement stock antenna? Also,
I've been thinking of purchasing an outside wide band antenna to use
for my radio.

Can somebody suggest one that is not too large and can be mounted
outside my window?

Thanks,

Joe

On Oct 14, 8:45 am, "Joe G." wrote:
Anybody know where I can order a replacement stock antenna? Also,
I've been thinking of purchasing an outside wide band antenna to use
for my radio.

Can somebody suggest one that is not too large and can be mounted
outside my window?

Thanks,

Joe

Not sure about stock antenna, but for outside, "discone" antenna's are
great for scanners, they have a very wide bandwidth. They are also
light and fairly small and inexspensive. Lots of ham radio stores
have them, I think that even radio shack offers one.
Tim

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:51:53 -0700, TimBob wrote:

On Oct 14, 8:45 am, "Joe G." wrote:
Anybody know where I can order a replacement stock antenna? Also,
I've been thinking of purchasing an outside wide band antenna to use
for my radio.

Can somebody suggest one that is not too large and can be mounted
outside my window?

Thanks,

Joe

Not sure about stock antenna, but for outside, "discone" antenna's are
great for scanners, they have a very wide bandwidth. They are also
light and fairly small and inexspensive. Lots of ham radio stores
have them, I think that even radio shack offers one.
Tim

On Oct 14, 8:45 am, "Joe G." wrote:
Anybody know where I can order a replacement stock antenna? Also,
I've been thinking of purchasing an outside wide band antenna to use
for my radio.

Can somebody suggest one that is not too large and can be mounted
outside my window?

Thanks,

Joe

Not sure about stock antenna, but for outside, "discone" antenna's are
great for scanners, they have a very wide bandwidth. They are also
light and fairly small and inexspensive. Lots of ham radio stores
have them, I think that even radio shack offers one.
Tim

Sorry I missed the original post, but:

http://support.radioshack.com/suppor...oc30/30383.htm

"To order parts call 1-800-843-7422 or visit your local RadioShack
store." The catalog number and NP part number for the antenna are
listed in the above-linked document.

FWIW, I tend to agree with Tim about the discone. You can get pretty
broadbanded results with a log-periodic too, but they're larger than
the discone, and are directional, thus require additional hardware to
be able to rotate them (a rotator and control box). Unless you have a
situation where you need to be able to point a directional antenna
towards a signal source in order to optimize reception, an
omnidirectional antenna such as a discone is the way to go, and the
discone is broadbanded as heck - I've seen receive coverage specs of
26 MHz to well above 1000 MHz (1.0 GHz) on some models. They don't
give you any gain but they're a lot of bang for the buck in terms of
frequency coverage.

An added bonus is that most discones can be used to transmit on
several of the VHF/UHF ham bands if you ever decide to go ahead and
get a ham ticket. The last one that I had was good for transmitting on
6m and 2m as well as the 220 MHz and 440 MHz bands, received from 28
to 1200 MHz, and withstood numerous Buffalo, New York winters replete
with snow, ice, and high winds. As is the case on receive, they don't
give you any gain when used as a transmitting antenna, but they cover
a lot of territory frequency-wise; if you want to be able to do a lot
with just one omnidirectional antenna it's tough to beat the discone.

JK