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August 24th 04, 06:37 AM
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free.com says... Could happen. If the radio is prone to overloading and the disc isn't to much for it and the others are, it would work better. "BDK" wrote in message ... In article .net, says... My discone works BETTR than my 60ft. random wire or my slinky di-pole. Believe it or not. Makes no difference to me... "BDK" wrote in message ... In article k.net, says... 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 ... 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 Well, I don't. Not that it matters to me either. You may want to check your coax though... BDK Yeah, my old Yaesu FRG-8800 didn't like my huge Slinky Dipole at all, Even with a ton of attenuation, the ever lovin nearby country station was twanging away in the background on any strong signal. I ended up chopping about half of it off on each side, and with a tuner, and an AMBC killer I threw together (about 40 DB down at 1560KHZ), it was tolerable. I haven't played around with either radio he's using on the discone with good results, but from what I've read, neither one likes a lot of antenna.. BDK |
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