"Anson" wrote in message
om...
thanks guys that answered my question.

another semi related question:

I have read that with a big antenna in a heavily populated area my
actually decrease a scanners sensitivity and cause it even pass over a
few transmissions. now that i have my new antenna, how can i be sure
this is not happening to me?

I'm not sure what you mean by "big." An antenna with a lot of gain or use
of a preamplifier will probably cause more intermod in popular areas than
using a simple antenna such as a ground plane.


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Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
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