Spectrum force mini window antenna UHF/800 with BN
September 13, 2018
Reviewer:
Frederick W. Keyo from Westwood, MA United States
It doesn’t work all the time on MSP trunking channels. Other than that it seems to be fine on other fire and police channels.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Mini dipole
January 29, 2016
Reviewer:
mark boulanger from two harbors, MN United States
Have not tried this antenna as of yet but if it's like the other purchases from scanner master I won't be disappointed
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
No improvement on signal
September 30, 2015
Reviewer:
Anonymous Person from MD United States
Bought this antenna for a PRO-197 base station. Had zero increase in signal with this antenna verses the factory metal extendable antenna.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
What a surprise
July 21, 2015
Reviewer:
Don Unger from Henrico, VA United States
I had been using an external antenna for my BCD-396XT scanner until the antenna connector broke. I came across this little antenna and decided to give it a try. By the time it came I had fixed the old antenna connection, so it allowed me to spend a week switching back and forth between the two. Surprisingly the little antenna was just as good. My only concern is that the antenna cable is pretty thin and I hope the antenna connection holds up, but definitely worth giving a try.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Just ok
April 27, 2015
Reviewer:
Anonymous Person from Indianapolis, IN United States
I bought this to use with a Uniden BCD536HP scanner mounted in my car. Was looking for a clean looking install with no visible antennas. Unit is smaller than it appears in the picture. Pretty tiny, in fact. I have it mounted in the upper right windshield with the wire routed into my A pillar and with one end of the antenna pointing up and the other pointing down towards the ground (vertically) as recommended. I am using it to listen to 800 and live in a good coverage area. I have the BCD436HP handheld as well with the radio shack 800 antenna and notice that it is getting transmissions that my mobile is not. reception is 3 to 4 bars when on my handheld in the car it is 5. I did some research and found that this is a "unity gain" antenna meaning that it does not add or subtract any gain. However it is connected to a lossy RG 174. I stopped using it and currently am using the window clip on external mount with a Laird 800 2.5 gain antenna which works far better.