I bought a new Pro-83 and the signal stalker won't detect a cordless phone
beyond a few inches away with the stock antenna. A telescopic antenna extended
to the correct length only improves the range by a few more inches. A couple
feet away from my 900 Mhz analog cordless phone's base unit will not detect at
all, nearly the same with my neighbor's 43 Mhz lowband cordless.

What kind of signal stalker performance are the rest of you Pro-83 owners
getting? I'm wondering if I have a bad unit.

On 29 Nov 2004 02:26:27 GMT, (Kscoinhutch) wrote:

I bought a new Pro-83 and the signal stalker won't detect a cordless phone
beyond a few inches away with the stock antenna.

The stock antenna is almost useless.

What frequency is the cordless on? I use a Active Hunter (probably
WORSE than the stock antenna, but better at being stealthy) but I can
pick up my cordless from about 10 feet away. Make sure you're in stalk
mode, and not in stalk BAND (i.e. UHF) mode.

A telescopic antenna extended to the correct length only improves the range by a few more inches.

A telescopic antenna on the cordless phone or scanner?

A couple feet away from my 900 Mhz analog cordless phone's base unit will not detect at
all, nearly the same with my neighbor's 43 Mhz lowband cordless.

What kind of signal stalker performance are the rest of you Pro-83 owners
getting? I'm wondering if I have a bad unit.

Keep in mind, these cordless phones are EXTREMELY low power - I'm not
sure, but I'm guessing in the milliwatts.

I've picked up a handheld 5 watt VHF radio from over 300 feet.

Evan
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Mine picks up a family radio easily from across the room with the
stock antenna. Haven't tried it any further. Did that to figure
out how the sig stalker works.



Evan Platt wrote:

On 29 Nov 2004 02:26:27 GMT, (Kscoinhutch) wrote:

I bought a new Pro-83 and the signal stalker won't detect a cordless phone
beyond a few inches away with the stock antenna.

The stock antenna is almost useless.

What frequency is the cordless on? I use a Active Hunter (probably
WORSE than the stock antenna, but better at being stealthy) but I can
pick up my cordless from about 10 feet away. Make sure you're in stalk
mode, and not in stalk BAND (i.e. UHF) mode.

A telescopic antenna extended to the correct length only improves the range by a few more inches.

A telescopic antenna on the cordless phone or scanner?

A couple feet away from my 900 Mhz analog cordless phone's base unit will not detect at
all, nearly the same with my neighbor's 43 Mhz lowband cordless.

What kind of signal stalker performance are the rest of you Pro-83 owners
getting? I'm wondering if I have a bad unit.

Keep in mind, these cordless phones are EXTREMELY low power - I'm not
sure, but I'm guessing in the milliwatts.

I've picked up a handheld 5 watt VHF radio from over 300 feet.

Evan

"Mark" wrote in message
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It will pick up FRS almost 300 feet away. That's as far as I've tried it.

Any luck picking up any ham traffic? Say 2 meter.

That's almost as good as the FRS Radio's themselves.

"Mark" wrote in message
...
It will pick up FRS almost 300 feet away. That's as far as I've tried it.

Are you sure your not using the FRS/GMRS combination units in the higher
power GMRS mode? Hope you have a license if you are...


"Mark" wrote in message
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Then you need a new radio. I have no problem getting 1 mile with a pair
in
hilly/wooded terrain.

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:39:08 -0500, "RadioMan2"
m wrote:

That's almost as good as the FRS Radio's themselves.

"Mark" wrote in message
.. .
It will pick up FRS almost 300 feet away. That's as far as I've tried
it.