Discone scanner plans
 

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

Are discones the "best" all band scanner antenna? SHould they be
mounted high?

I like your idea. I will have to go online and see what a radio shack
costs. I would like to build one better than you could buy one though.

I found one in RS lastweek , a generic discone for 25Mhz-1300Mhz;
costed a hefty 69 bucks. Also check out antennawarehouse.com, Grove's
etc.

How is it made? Do you like it?

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How is it made? Do you like it?



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I like them.
I see they now include a vertical element, something they didn't do 10 years
ago when I bought mine.
Seems to me thats theres not much room to reasonably improve.
You either make the elements shorter or longer, and/or of a better grade of
material/sturdier construction.
I might add that mine has stood up rather well to 10 years or wear and tear
exposed to the elements on my roof.

T-bone wrote:
I might add that mine has stood up rather well to 10 years or wear and tear
exposed to the elements on my roof.

Just a thought: put it in your attic instead - and no weather or rust
problems.
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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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A.Pismo Clam wrote:
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


I've owned both the RS and diamond discones and agree with you. The RS
is a good discone but it is fairly fragile. I ended up breaking several
elements on it and the only way I could get replacements was to buy
another RS antenna. After that I installed a Diamond and couldn't be
more happy with it. The diamond is well worth the extra money as
compared to the RS, in my opinion.

Charles C.