I have two antennas on my car. A Firestik 3' (the "scanner" version) on a
5" mag dead center on my roof, and a 14" steel whip about 12" forward of the
Firestik. The Firestik has nice thick RG58 and a solid base. The 14" I got
on Ebay for $8 shipped and has coax so thin I can wrap it around a pencil
(unshielded).

I listen to about 60 stations within a hundred mile radius, depending on
local conditions. Of these 60, my 14" bring in most of them clearly enough
to hear. My Firestik brings in 9. NINE. And all of those stations are
within 7 miles of me.

My Firestik is picking up 15% of the stations my cheap Ebay antenna picks
up. Any comments or suggestions? I am about to buy a second cheapie and
scrap the Firestik outright.

Thanks.

What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is way too
much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

Bill Crocker


"User" wrote in message
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I have two antennas on my car. A Firestik 3' (the "scanner" version) on a
5" mag dead center on my roof, and a 14" steel whip about 12" forward of
the Firestik. The Firestik has nice thick RG58 and a solid base. The 14"
I got on Ebay for $8 shipped and has coax so thin I can wrap it around a
pencil (unshielded).

I listen to about 60 stations within a hundred mile radius, depending on
local conditions. Of these 60, my 14" bring in most of them clearly
enough to hear. My Firestik brings in 9. NINE. And all of those
stations are within 7 miles of me.

My Firestik is picking up 15% of the stations my cheap Ebay antenna picks
up. Any comments or suggestions? I am about to buy a second cheapie and
scrap the Firestik outright.

Thanks.

What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is way
too much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

RG58. The whole setup (antenna, base, cable) was advertised as "covering
25-1300mhz with extra power in the busy 140-170mhz band"

That's your problem!

Bill Crocker


"User" wrote in message
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What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is way
too much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

RG58. The whole setup (antenna, base, cable) was advertised as "covering
25-1300mhz with extra power in the busy 140-170mhz band"

That's your problem!

Jacket says "Fire Flex RG58 A/U"

Great. Dang thing was sold as a scanner antenna. What kind of cable do I
need?

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:50:16 -0700, "User" wrote:

That's your problem!

Jacket says "Fire Flex RG58 A/U"

Great. Dang thing was sold as a scanner antenna. What kind of cable do I
need?

THE RG 58 IS FINE BELOW 500 MHZ

Does you wife know?

"User" wrote in message
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What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is way
too much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

RG58. The whole setup (antenna, base, cable) was advertised as "covering
25-1300mhz with extra power in the busy 140-170mhz band"

Does you wife know?

eh?



"User" wrote in message
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What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is
way
too much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

RG58. The whole setup (antenna, base, cable) was advertised as "covering
25-1300mhz with extra power in the busy 140-170mhz band"

Jim Douglas wrote:
Does you wife know?

"User" wrote in message
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What type of cable is on the Firestick? If it's RG58, then there is way
too much signal loss, especially above 50MHz.

RG58. The whole setup (antenna, base, cable) was advertised as "covering
25-1300mhz with extra power in the busy 140-170mhz band"






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