Will this work?

[RadioKid]

Hey guys,
I picked this up in a council clean up. I thought it might work as a scanner antenna. Its an old indoor TV antenna.
Will it work as a wideband antenna?

Cheers, Matty

[Vkfour]

Experiment. Plug it in and experiment with different lengths, different angles and so on. It may not work, it may work well, you don't know until you try. RF, particularly at VHF and UHF is strange stuff and things that should work, often times don't, and things that shouldn't often times do.

[railscan]

It is a piece of metal connected to a receiver via another piece of metal. It will work. The question is, how effectively will it work? That is very much the unknown. Try to get it as high as possible, keep the whips as vertical as possible and don't worry about the 75 / 50 Ohm mismatch it does not exist in a passive environment like of piece of wire. The impedance is at the device.

R

[RadioKid]

Cheers guys. Ill try it on the scanner up high on the roof.

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