Discone antenna mount

[Gary333]

I am in a one bedroom apartment. I figure the best I can do is mount a discone antenna in the attic. My main question is how to mount the antenna on a floor in the attic. Some kind of stand to bolt the antenna to.

My second question would be the age old question OmniX or Diamond?

This should be an easy two questions.

 

[mmckenna]

Diamond.

As for mounting, a short length of 3/4" PVC pipe will work. It's easy to drill and you can run a couple of screws through it to attach to a rafter/joist, etc. I did that in my garage to support a small TV antenna.

 

[TailGator911]

Or a camera tripod, a speaker stand. There are a few options depending on your space dimensions and materials at hand, and your own imagination. I once hung a discone upside down (w/out 800mhz whip) from a rafter with 1 1/4" yellow boat rope and it worked great.

 

[allend]

Yup. You just have to be creative especially when living in tight quarters like an apartment. I used a directv mount before in my attic for a diamond discone antenna for a good solid mount. Works really well

 

[spongella]

Diamond is a good antenna. You could suspend it by tying string to the ball tip and the other end to a rafter. No winds up in the attic hi hi.

 

[15plus1]

Diamond is a good antenna. You could suspend it by tying string to the ball tip and the other end to a rafter. No winds up in the attic hi hi.

I did that from a tree as a temp setup for a few months.

 

[Gary333]

These are good ideas. I thought there might be a store bought mount I haven't seen yet. The scanner should be here today.

 

[allend]

I also, have a discone up in a tree at 30 ft and have it zip tied to a wood pole and then zip tied it to the trunk of the tree for the past 4 yrs and it has never broke or fallen due to winds or storms nor nothing. Its nice and buried up there and nobody can see it. Stealth mode.

 

[iMONITOR]

I also, have a discone up in a tree at 30 ft and have it zip tied to a wood pole and then zip tied it to the trunk of the tree for the past 4 yrs and it has never broke or fallen due to winds or storms nor nothing. Its nice and buried up there and nobody can see it. Stealth mode.

How tall is the tree? Not worried about lightning?

 

[AI7PM]

Just set it on the cone radials. I did that with one in my attic. About your only worries are clear of metal HVAC ducting and electric lines.

 

[Gary333]

Just set it on the cone radials. I did that with one in my attic. About your only worries are clear of metal HVAC ducting and electric lines.

I just assumed it needed some kinda mount. I may try it

 

[W5lz]

If in-doors, there's no particular/special way of mounting a disc-cone antenna. All the 'usual' thingys apply, high as practical, not in a 'shielded' room, sort of unobtrusive (paint the thing!). After that it amounts to how ever you have to or can. Make allowances for the feed line routing, that's probably going to be the hardest thing maybe.

 

[Gary333]

I need to get up there and verify the location. It's a finished area. I will drop the coax down a corner of my living room to the scanner.

Definitely easier said than done.