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Default Would a discone cover all the US TV broadcast Freqs?

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:06:03 GMT, "JB" wrote:

Discone is vertically polarized and TV is horizontal. Results in a 15db or
more loss in signal.


Usually true. However, a few DTV stations have a vertical component
intended to improve mobile TV reception, where a telescoping vertical
whip antenna is commonly used. See:
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/article/67946

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