[TrunkCom] RS 2050 Antenna

[STUDIODED@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/02 3:32:25 AM Central Daylight Time, 
MILLINNIUMCLEAN@aol.com writes:


> >Using the antenna that came with  the scanner-----scanning the 40.00 plus 
> FREQ---
> >many times I cannot get any reception unless I hold the antenna with my 
> fingers--
> >I also experimented by attaching an ordinary one foot electric wire to the 
> 
> >antenna and this works also.
> 
> >Question-- why  do my fingers or the wire work?????
>                                           
>                              
> Its sounds like you have a bad antenna ground inside your scanner. Since 
> that is a base scanner, I would invest in a outside antenna. You can buy an 
> 
> outside antenna at Radio Shack. 
> 
> 

No,
       It's not a bad ground. What you are doing when you grab the antenna or 
add the wire to it is actually making it longer (your arm and whole body) and 
are conductive and therefore "become" part of the antenna. 40Mhz technically 
requires almost a 6 foot antenna. Anything you can add to a stock back of set 
scanner antenna will help for freqs lower than roughly 150Mhz.

Dave
N9DAV


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