looking for a homebase scanner for airbands been offered a Uniden ubc785xlt would this be ok for the aiebands any thoughts as to a good outside antenna ???
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Uniden ubc785xlt any good for airband ???
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Re: Uniden ubc785xlt any good for airband ???
A simple dipole cut for the middle of the band will do the job perfectly well - it's where you put it that counts. Shove it up high and away you go.
Can't imagine any reasonable scanner being poor on a crucial band like 118-137, but some will have more background noise than others due to the way their AM circuits demodulate the signals, if that bothers you. And then there's scan speed to consider - do you want to monitor one channel or cover as much ground (pun almost intended) as possible? It certainly helps if you want to scan a load of seldom used channels for anything out of the ordinary.
Can't imagine any reasonable scanner being poor on a crucial band like 118-137, but some will have more background noise than others due to the way their AM circuits demodulate the signals, if that bothers you. And then there's scan speed to consider - do you want to monitor one channel or cover as much ground (pun almost intended) as possible? It certainly helps if you want to scan a load of seldom used channels for anything out of the ordinary.
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Re: Uniden ubc785xlt any good for airband ???
Yes, the 785 is a nice airband scanner, both civil and military, as you're in the Fens, a simple dipole should suffice, plus if you get really into it, it has 8.33kc steps for the crowded parts of the civil band.
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Re: Uniden ubc785xlt any good for airband ???
The 785 is a great base scanner for airband, I think it's the last decent home base uniden made before the 800 etc, which is also a great scanner if you don't mind the car sterio look I sold on my 800xlt for another 785xlt
Only downsides for me where, a serial connection for programming software (FTDI serial to USB works fine though) and not being able to use Bctool software
The Diamond D777 is a brilliant white stick antenna for air band, whilst also being very good for the rest of the available frequency.
Only downsides for me where, a serial connection for programming software (FTDI serial to USB works fine though) and not being able to use Bctool software
The Diamond D777 is a brilliant white stick antenna for air band, whilst also being very good for the rest of the available frequency.
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Re: Uniden ubc785xlt any good for airband ???
I have had a 780xlt for about 9-10 years used on a discone without a hint of trouble fantastic for civil and mil airband use