I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated

I agree with Nelson. If your looking to listen to your local PD then the
discone is the way to go. Wide bandwidth. Easy to install.



"jaffo1" wrote in message
.rogers.com...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated

I know a few have suggested discones....but they are really for
horizontalradiation, you need vertical polarisation for police.
Try a 1/2 wave dipole, easy to make.

"jaffo1" wrote in message
.rogers.com...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated

Mac Tabak wrote:

I know a few have suggested discones....but they are really for
horizontalradiation, you need vertical polarisation for police.
Try a 1/2 wave dipole, easy to make.

Um, discone *is* vertical.

Page 7-29 ARRL Antenna Book, 20th Ed.
--
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In article ers.com,
says...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated



This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm


BDK

BDK wrote:

In article ers.com,
says...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated



This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna
out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm

Is there any analysis of this antenna on the web that I might look at?

-Donald
--
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have one of these, and while I'm not expert, it does a wonderful job for
me. I've never used a discone, so I have no way to compare the two...
However, you can buy this antenna from other sources for HALF (or a little
more than half) the price they want at the site that was originally linked
to...

http://www.starkelectronic.com/acantena.htm#ST2
http://www.valcoelectronics.com/scanner/scanner.htm
http://www.radiooutfitter.com/store/ST2.html
http://www.warrenelectronics.com/antennas/scanner_1.htm
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...ants/2732.html



"BDK" wrote in message
...
In article ers.com,
says...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated



This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm


BDK

Too bad the ST-2 omits the milair freqs :~( I almost ordered one till I
read a DETAILED frequency coverage (30-50, 148-174, 440-470, 470-512,
800-912 MHz) Most stores list it as 30-1300 which isn't quite the same...



"PowerHouse Communications" wrote in message
...
I have one of these, and while I'm not expert, it does a wonderful job for
me. I've never used a discone, so I have no way to compare the two...
However, you can buy this antenna from other sources for HALF (or a little
more than half) the price they want at the site that was originally linked
to...

http://www.starkelectronic.com/acantena.htm#ST2
http://www.valcoelectronics.com/scanner/scanner.htm
http://www.radiooutfitter.com/store/ST2.html
http://www.warrenelectronics.com/antennas/scanner_1.htm
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...ants/2732.html



"BDK" wrote in message
...
In article ers.com,
says...
I need some help choosing an antenna for my
base station police scanner.
any suggestion (pros or cons) would be appreciated



This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm


BDK

This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm


BDK
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Not quite light years ahead of a discone. Last year I put up a discone
on one side of my house and a ST 2 on the other side, fed them both with
RG 6U double shielded. Had them feeding a Yaesu VR 5000 alternately.
The discone was the one that had the vertical element on top.
On 30-50 I could tell no difference between the 2. But I could use
the discone on 6 meter fm with a 1.9-1 swr. on 148-170 they appeared
to be the same. On some freqs the ST 2 was a tad, and I mean a tad
better. ON other signals in VHF (i.e.144mhz ssb amateur) the discone
picked up distant ssb chatter while the ST 2 picked up nothing. On the
discone I can use on 2 mtr. fm with almost a flat swr. On 440-470 they
apeared to be the same for all intent. Although I can use the discone on
440 fm with a 1.5-1 or so swr. On the 470-512 area there is nothing to
listen to around here so thats a wash. But on 800-912mhz the discone
worked quite well and is somewhat resonant there, while the ST 2
seemed to be about deaf in this area. If you live in an area that gets
freezing rain and wind, even the new improved ST 2 will not last. Its
too fragile. I have never had a discone come down. After my tests I took
down the ST 2 and sold it, and still have up the discone. There is no
substitute for being resonant at various points on a freq plot. The ST 2
basically fakes the radio as far as impededance with the 300 ohm
transformer. It hardly blows the discone out of the water, like I hear so
often. Advertising hype.


Jeff

However it is half the price and includes the feed line and shipping.
It seems by the reports for monitoring the
basics its a appropriate antenna
Doug
"Jeff" wrote in message
news:U060d.158329$Fg5.72937@attbi_s53...


This is what you want. Will blow away about any other omni antenna
out
there. Light years ahead of a discone.

http://users.cis.net/kingpop/Scanner/Scantenna.htm


BDK
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Not quite light years ahead of a discone. Last year I put up a
discone
on one side of my house and a ST 2 on the other side, fed them both with
RG 6U double shielded. Had them feeding a Yaesu VR 5000 alternately.
The discone was the one that had the vertical element on top.
On 30-50 I could tell no difference between the 2. But I could use
the discone on 6 meter fm with a 1.9-1 swr. on 148-170 they appeared
to be the same. On some freqs the ST 2 was a tad, and I mean a tad
better. ON other signals in VHF (i.e.144mhz ssb amateur) the discone
picked up distant ssb chatter while the ST 2 picked up nothing. On the
discone I can use on 2 mtr. fm with almost a flat swr. On 440-470 they
apeared to be the same for all intent. Although I can use the discone on
440 fm with a 1.5-1 or so swr. On the 470-512 area there is nothing to
listen to around here so thats a wash. But on 800-912mhz the discone
worked quite well and is somewhat resonant there, while the ST 2
seemed to be about deaf in this area. If you live in an area that gets
freezing rain and wind, even the new improved ST 2 will not last. Its
too fragile. I have never had a discone come down. After my tests I took
down the ST 2 and sold it, and still have up the discone. There is no
substitute for being resonant at various points on a freq plot. The ST 2
basically fakes the radio as far as impededance with the 300 ohm
transformer. It hardly blows the discone out of the water, like I hear so
often. Advertising hype.


Jeff