For my $.02 worth, I had a RS discone and after two years, a 70+ MPH
wind blew it and half of the radials some 500 feet into the woods. If
you don't have these types of winds to contend with, I'd say it was a
great discone, because it was for the time that I had it.

I now have a "Diamond" and am very pleased with it's construction. We
have had 66 MPH winds in the 2 years since it's been up and it has held
firm, on the same 20" post, since then. The ends of the radials are not
crimped at the ends [like the RS that I had] That is where they broke
off from my antenna.

Let me know if you need more info.

Alain...Palomar Mountain, where the 200" Hale telescope is.

wrote:
Does anyone know if there are plans for a discone scanner antenna on
the web to build?


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