No more decent scanner antennas.

[Mudfoot]

Sounds like the one I bought from RS back in early 80's. It was a good one.

 

[Rwb]

Sounds like the one I bought from RS back in early 80's. It was a good one.

yes,anyymore its cobble up junk and over price it

 

[6meter]

After looking at antenna prices on Aamzon, at the last few hamfests I've been watching for a decent deal on a scanner antenna. So far I haven't found anything. My radio room is in the basement so a scanner antenna in the attic would be a tremendous improvement.

 

[Rwb]

After looking at antenna prices on Aamzon, at the last few hamfests I've been watching for a decent deal on a scanner antenna. So far I haven't found anything. My radio room is in the basement so a scanner antenna in the attic would be a tremendous improvement.

just an insulated wire on bnc connector ran up to attic then bare wire ran around walls on insulators would help just dont make it a loop ,end it before you get back to the start

 

[loosecannon]

get yourself one of these:

now get some 16ga. solid copper wire (anything will work but smaller can be too flimsy to hold itself up.)
get some small bolts, washers, and nuts that will fit in the four holes on the connector.

now cut five pieces of wire to 1/4 wavelength at the center of the frequency range you want to use, making sure to put small loops in all five pieces of wire.

now bolt the four pieces to the base, and solder one to the center pin sticking straight up.
bend the radials at 45* and hang the antenna by the loop at the top.
LC

 

[6meter]

A homebrew scanner antenna might end up being the route that I go.

The attic is already a bit of an antenna farm with several receive antennas -
a 66 foot loop, a fan dipole and FM broadcast band omni.

 

[Rob_MA]

Had good luck with this configuration:

https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Homebrewed_Off-Center_Fed_Dipole

Most of my listening is VHF-Lo and VHF-Hi so it worked pretty well for me. I think Grove Enterprises used to sell a commercial version of this.

 

[6meter]

Thanks Rob
I had looked at that a few weeks ago. A quick and dirty wire version of that will let me test how well an attic antenna can receive.

I did make it to a hamfest this weekend and a guy actually had a scanner discone antenna for sale. But his asking price was pretty close to retail and he wouldn't budge on the price.

 

[2NC995]

I have an older radio shack discone that’s been in my attic for several years. Should last me a long time up there.

 

[wa373]

Has anyone tried the Harvest D220R mini discone antenna sold by Eagle Antenna on Ebay? Claimed to cover 100 to 1600 mhz.