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- From: pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson)
- Subject: Re: Disc-cone antenna
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.221625.10010@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <C04xsF.LL0@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 31 DEC 92 17:07:50
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- In article <C04xsF.LL0@inews.Intel.COM>, dsehr@morticia.intel.com
- (David Sehr ~) writes, in part:
-
- >A while back I was at a friend's place and he had a VHF/UHF radio
- >(army surplus stuff) hooked to what he called a ``disc-cone'' antenna.
- More commonly spelt discone.
-
- >He claimed the antenna covers a reasonably wide band of frequencies,
- >and what really attracted me was how small it was. Well, I was
- Errrr welll. The lowest usable frequency is (roughly) the
- frequency at which the skirt is a quarter wave. So it will be
- roughly the same size as a conventional antenna. Its wide band is
- in the upwards direction, in frequency.
-
- >wondering if such an antenna might be useful for TV reception in an
- >apartment. I know essentially nothing about antennas, but it would be
- >nice to have a nice omnidirectional antenna so that I don't have to
- >keep fiddling with rabbit-ears. (I realize this may cause multipath
- >problems, though.) Any ideas whether such an antenna would be useful
- Not may. 8)>> WILL. The fiddling is deghosting, in technical terms,
- nulling the multipath. The older "bow tie" (at both UHF, and its larger
- cousins at VHF) antennas are, effectively, two discones
- "center-to-center" without the disc.
-
- >as a TV antenna? Suggestions for how to build one?
- TV runs from 50 odd to 200 odd (without digging out charts...)
- Scanners can work 30-50, 120-170 ("blank spot" in the middle of TV
- band), and 400 and up. So the scanner style will work as well as any.
- (Fancy scanners cover it all, and let you watch tv. 8)>>)
- (This is the "tip of the iceberg" on ALL these subjects. I decline to
- become verbose on any. Unless argued with. 8)>>)
-
- Also, the classic discone is vertically polarized, and most TV is
- horizontally polarised, so the discone should go on its "side". At
- which point it ceases being omnidirectional. And has to be reaimed for
- each channel.
-
- thanks
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