"Railroader" wrote in message
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Any suggestions, I had an older Radio Shack base Antenna, Ice storm
crashed
it.


No antenna will work equally well over such a wide freq range. However,
antennas such as the discone are very good compromises. Little or no gain,
but wide frequency response.

Here's a biconical type antenna I built & used:

http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc/bicone.html

Seemed to work a little better than a discone.

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Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc