You can attach this antenna to your desktop scanner and the design makes it easy to angle it in the direction that will give you the best signal. The double pivot design of the comet antenna makes it a good choice for indoor scanners.

IMHO, the discone is acceptable as a broad-band scanning antenna if it is mounted high enough and in the clear, and if you just can't set up anything else. 2 Comet Original BNC-W100RX Best Mobile Scanner Antenna. Even on VHF and UHF, where this antenna is supposed to perform best, you will get out better with a properly tuned J-pole or mag-mounted ground plane vertical. Includes 15 of Belden RG58/U coax with transmission coupler box and attached BNC (twist on/off) connector to attach to the scanner. Just don't have both antennas directly in-line with each other and you may also want to keep the antenna cables separated as well, as sometimes bleed-over can occur with. It may bave an SWR of <2.5:1 over a wide frequency range, but do does a 50 ohm resistor.SWR is important in keeping your rig's finals happy, but it says nothing about how your signal gets out. A couple feet below or above the scanner antenna and you should be okay, too close and you may actually find bleed-over from the transmitter antenna into your scanner receiver. Here are some of the problems: The discone may be 'omnidirectional' but has zero gain. Here we take a look at the Skyscan Desktop antenna with a rated frequency range of between 25 Mhz up to 2 Ghz. I mean, did you really think you could get a small antenna to cover 25MHz to 1.2GHx?

In no cases did it perform as well as my 'regular' antennas for these bands. On the roof of my QTH about 20 years ago as an alternative 'listening' antenna, and I've tried using it to Xmit on HF, VHF, and UHF. I recall that it was intended for use in aviation. Well, that is the famous 'discone' biconical antenna that was developed, I think, in the 1940's or thereabouts, for wide-band reception.

Transmit with scanner antenna