They are very easy to make for next to nothing in parts and perform surprisingly well. For indoor receive use you could try the so called planar disc antenna. One thing that isnt discussed much but which is quite important, make sure whatever antenna you buy uses an N connector rather than a SO-239. If you ever plan on getting a ham ticket you should do research with hams as to the suitability of all these antennas for transmitting, especially their SWR. But thats an outdoor option that wont cost you an arm and a leg. There is a UK company that sells a biconical for scanner use. If not, then a mobile solution may well be preferred.įor broadband omni you might have better luck with a biconical antenna than a discone. Whether that would be possible from a base station using a discone or a Yagi remains to be seen.
I would like to be able to pick up signals between these and possibly the tower at East midlands if possible. We also seem to be on a flight path as aircraft regularly fly overhead going northbound and southbound.
For air traffic, I have East Midlands airport which a is little less than 20 miles away to the north, and Birmingham airport which is around 30 miles away to the southwest. I'm not sure at the moment whether I need a handheld factor or not. If my intertest holds or I want get interested in a particular band or type of signal then I might eventually get a better SDR radio and a more appropriate antenna. Having said that, the RTLSDR does give me a cheap way to explore various signals. The results so far are rather uninspiring and it seems to be very slow at scanning.
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Yet, I could not find a program that can perform a similar function to a scanner on a PC (on Linux or Windows) except maybe RTL-Airplay which I have just managed to set up. I found your comment interesting as it sounds like scanners have been obsoleted and superceded by SDR - unless a handheld factor is required. Now that I have it up and running, I will be expermenting with it over the next few weeks. I did have some difficulty getting this working which was the subject of another thread. I have having a dip into the world of SDR with a cheap RTLSDR receiver. What would members recommend? What other buying decisions do I need to consider? Also I am not sure ho high to go in frequency? Some scanners go up to 3GHz, but is there anything that might be of interest using such high frequencies? I would think I could probably stretch to 200-250GBP. Not sure if any of them cover trunking? Current offerings from AOR cost well over 600GBP and so are unaffordable. There are older scanners like the ICOM IC-R20 or used options such as the Uniden USC230 or UBC3500. For example there is the Uniden UBC125XLT, which seems affordable but has band gaps and I think no trunking. With regards to scanners I have been doing a bit of research to understand some of the terms being used in ads like Close Call (Uniden), trunking, CTCSS/DCS etc, and I have been looking at various reviews but I am still uncertain which scanner to buy. It would also be interesting to pick up the comms from the local racing track as well as in the city police, ambulance and fire service. My main interest currently is the VHF air band but I am also interested in astronomy and may find other signals of interest on other bands. I'm thinking that a scanner would probably suit better here. This works nicely on the HF bands, but is rather difficult to use for listening to the airbands since by the time I find a signal and tune into it, I am fortunate to catch the tail end of the conversation. I have an HF receiver with airband - a Tecsun PL660. Someone suggested the Yupiteru 7100, but the same would seem to apply here - very good receiver but capable only of receiving analog signals. I was advised that the AOR7000 will not decode these digital signals and I needed a more up-to-date scanner so I ended up selling it. I did pick up some signals in the higher VHF/UHF bands but just digital bleeps. Some 4/5 years ago I had and AOR7000 which worked fine on HF and picked up some air band signals.
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