The Dressler is a very disappointing antenna, I had two demo units from
my local distributor and a R/S Discone worked better on lower VHF and
much of the other bands. At best, the Dressler was a little better than
the Discone on UHF and 800MHz but not enough to justify the exorbitant
price. The dealer even admitted he used a Discone with a separate
Dressler pre amp and got really good results. After several antenna guys
looked over the Dressler, we concluded the antenna element inside is
just not a very good design and the internal pre amp can only do so much
with what you feed it. If someone is praising a Dressler, ask them if
they actually compared it to anything meaningful.
Mike


BJ wrote:
Which one do you have, what's the price, and how many radios do you feed
from one antenna? I am seriously considering a dressler...replacing a
damaged discone.

Any good links or pics


"Brian" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:05:16 -0500, "bluecool"
wrote:


Hey,
New to the boards. Cool topics. I live in a city area and want to pick up
much more than the rubber duck that came with either of my portables. I
want something easy to hook up that will help me get train frequencies
and maybe ships at sea (about 4 miles from my house).

I bought a Discone off Ebay, for my roof but it gets less than my rubber
duck! Could be the poor coax I used, but still, I lost all the NOAH
weather freq.s and I only gained some snowy CB trucker signals on 19.

I'm now looking at the indoor flexable antennas like the C.Crane 15.75"

CC

Super Gainer.
Anyone know these?
Do they work?

Thanks.

bluecool-



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