[Icom] Re: discone

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:02:48 EST

In a message dated 03/10/2003 19:33:17 Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< How well does the discone work on the ham bands? >>
Working from memory (my antenna books are at home, I'm at work) a discone is 
rated about 0.8 dBi.  You trade gain for bandwidth.  They also tend to favor 
high-angle signals over low angle.  For that reason they are good for ground 
to air communications, i.e. airport.

If anybody can correct me, please do--no flames necessary.

73, Blair k3yd