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discone antenna
Getting ready to purchase a ICOM 8500, and as I live in a community
where a long wire would be out of the question, I have been told that a discone will work quite well for my monitoring activities, and will be rather hard for the grumpy neighbors to see, as compared to a beam, etc. etc.... . Any comments on this? How high should I install it. Probably cant go over 15 or 20 feet at the most. I intend to use some type of telescoping mast, so when one of our Florida hurricanes comes, I can "bring er down"! Since the antenna will be coupled to the mast, will I still need to ground it? (I know thats probably a really stupid question, but it seems as if the metal mast would take a lightning strike (God forbid!) to the ground, rather than into the house..(??) A neighbor of mine has a little discone up around 15 ft., and uses it to transmit on the 6 meter (or is it 20 meter) bank. Works quite well, he says. Thanks in advance for any info |
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