I've strung a wire either between two trees while at a city park or
between the house nad a tree for a shortwave antenna

scanner antenna usually wavelengths are 4 meters or less and a 2 meter
ham or 2m/440 antenna will work just fine an antenna for 150mhz
will work for 300, 600 even 900mhz as it is a multiple of the wavelength

the antenna does not have to be exact but hte cloer the better


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One problem - it sounds as if the coax is going to have to be long
enough that, even with LMR600, it might not be better than an antenna
mounted lower but much closer.


I am going to go and measure again, but assuming I measured wrong
before, Is a 100 foot run too long for the antenna to work properly? I
am probabaly going to use 300 ohm twin lead for the lead in, unless
people think it should really be coax. See a picture of the proposed
set up at http://community.webshots.com/photo/...24626583NExHgY