Scanner / antenna

No point in what? Listening to police freqs? I know a lot of old ladies that get a lot of enjoyment listening to the ol' scanner on a Saturday night, and Sunday night, and........................!!

 

Sometimes ...

Scanner lisseners can be extra eyes and ears A few can be pests.
We have had calls about a wanted car from them ...

Best story was out west someone would show up with hot coffie for the firemen and cops.

MOST people just want to help.

 

Don't get me wrong. At the house it's goood to have police and fire freqs programmed into the radio. But in a truck? What's the point.

 

The antenna that I have to use with my old Beartracker is a fiberglass whip that looks much like your standard CB antenna, only much shorter. So it does not draw as much attention as say a simple metal short rod, which I have used and worked well, or one of the scanner antennas that have a couple loading coils in them.
Yes most places are headed to trunked and/or digital, so mine is obsolete, but I like to use it to listen to the DOT plow guys in bad weather.
Indiana seems to be the worst place to get caught with one, from what other drivers have told me.
Having an Amateur license has it's perks.

 

Yes it does ....

 

here's a wide selection too:

http://rffun.com/catalog/scanants.html

 

Here you go CJ, a mobile discone:

http://www.rfparts.com/diamond/d220.html

I do not run a scanner in the mobile much due to my State's poorly worded mobile scanner laws.When I do I use I just use a VHF/UHF amateur radio antenna.When I use to scan/search the Miliatry Aeronautical band I had discone on the roof,it did it's job but I feel I could have done better with something else.

 

True, unless you just like to listen, or your business is of a devious nature! Even in my area, all the agencies will be digital by the end of the year. The price of a digital scanner would have to come way down before I would buy another scanner. I quit listening when the state police went to the 800 mgz trunking system. Our area shared towers with the troop to the west of us and the scanner couldn't differentiate between the two different troops. Consequently there was so much traffic on the airways at certain times you couldn't follow a call to its conclusion. One troop might have a "hot" call, but the next transmission might be a routine call in the other troop. Just made it frustrating to try and listen.......so I didn't!!!

 

We can use a 6 meters ( 50 mhz ) antenna for 6 meters, 2 meters and 70 CM ( 440 mhz) It might even work on 1.25 meters - ( 220 MHz )...

BUNK let me see you do that .....