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Title: New Antenna??
Post by: PIT on August 15, 2006, 01:07:31 AM

Im am buying a new antenna soon so that the PIT feed and Cle Center feed each has its seperate antenna. the one i have now is this one http://www.antennawarehouse.com/Scanner/Scantenna.htm it works very well for the CLE Center feed but is terrible on the PIT feed. I was just going to buy the same antenna again but, does anyone know of any other ones that are better but around the same price?

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: blizzard242 on August 15, 2006, 01:22:05 AM

A good and cheep antenna is a wire antenna. You may want to try a cheep rool of speaker wire and an clip. I used a random wire antenna on my ZOB Algonac aria feed and it worked quite well.

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: PIT on August 15, 2006, 01:32:55 AM

when you say a "clip", what is that?

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: blizzard242 on August 15, 2006, 01:42:12 AM

alligator clips

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: PIT on August 15, 2006, 01:43:05 AM

on both ends  or? i need some more explantaion plz sorry, than ontoa coax or?

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: blizzard242 on August 15, 2006, 02:07:47 AM

connect the clip to the end of the wire, then connect the clip to the end of the antenna on your radio. String the wire out a window or something them extend the wire as high as you can. This antenna will need some fine-tuning though for it to work best, it hit or miss.

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: PIT on August 15, 2006, 02:09:29 AM

Thank You very much, ill give it a try

Title: Re: New Antenna??
Post by: blizzard242 on August 16, 2006, 01:45:48 AM

please post and tell me how well it works for you.