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Old December 17th 08, 09:24 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Would a discone cover all the US TV broadcast Freqs?

On Dec 17, 4:05*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
JB wrote:
Discone is vertically polarized and TV is horizontal. *Results in a 15db or
more loss in signal.


How about a dual-discone mounted horizontally?
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73, Cecil *http://www.w5dxp.com


At five miles an old coat hanger would probably work well. Years ago I
lived in a townhouse apartment that had cable but you bought it
through the apartment at a premium rate compared to the cable company.
I put a coat hangar dipole in the attic and connected it to there
wiring. I got ABC, CBS,NBC 3 PBS stations and a couple of local non
affiliated stations. Way more TV than I wanted.