[Icom] Re: discone

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:19:57 -0600

Hi Blair-

My discone does work best at 115 and up. Even works at 800-900 but of course
I never use it there.

Andy K5VM

----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: [Icom] Re: discone

> 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
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