"wz0zzz" wrote in message
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I was reading an earlier thread about the Radio Shack Discone antenna
and saw a post from Wayne about using a ham stick to replace the top
whip.
The resulting antenna is nothing more than a 1/4 wave groundplane on 6M- and
has none of the wideband characteristics of a discone at 6M.

Dale W4OP