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-> WoW!  Roger excellent list of sites there... All my thanks for the
-> listing.  As an occasional reader here, this list sure peeked my
-> interest in getting back into scanning.
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-> Paul
Great Paul - glad to hear it.  One of the keys that separate good
scanning from GREAT scanning is the antenna.  I personally use Grove's
Scantenna with their PRE-5 antenna preamp.  You've never heard me
complain here (or anywhere for that matter) regarding the Scantenna.  If
I were to purchase another antenna, I would purchase an FM/VHF/UHF beam
which would be the largest that I could find.  The Grove scanner beam
may be OK for FM radio and close-in television, but it doesn't reach out
as far as I would like and the front-to-back ratio isn't that great in
terms of signal rejection (including those signals from the side - which
may be OK if you want to pick up signals within your town).
And don't forget the very low-loss coax if you're running 50-100 feet of
coax.  Never run/use the thin coax (RG-58 if memory serves correct -
loss over 10 feet is totally unaccaptable for scanning OR any other use
for that matter).
Hope you have fun - if you need any freqs, just ask.  Either myself or
someone else here will probably more than fill your hard drive.
Roger
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