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August 22nd 04, 07:11 PM

BDK

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In article k.net,
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I use a discone on my VR-5000 and PCR-1000. They work well for me from 900
down to WWV at 2500.

"Gene" wrote in message
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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

"Works well" is relative. Compared to about any other antenna, a Discone
really is a poor performer at VHF, let alone SW. But, compared to NO
antenna, it works well. A 40 ft piece of wire on the attic floor should,
and almost has to blow it away on SW. On scanner freqs, the simplest
ground plane is amazingly better than a discone.

BDK

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