In my rather humble opinion (although involved in VHF comms since 1958) a preamp used for channelized VHF can be a great help.
Not so much so for HF especially on either SSB or AM due to just increasing the overall noise level.
Dave J.? ? ? AF0DJ
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 18:51, Richard in NC via groups.io
<w4mcd@...> wrote:
Actually I have seen a preamp made for scanning on a portable scanner that runs off batteries. I think it was advertised in Monitoring Times a bunch of years ago.?
73 Richard?