Did ya miss post #15?
Are All Discones The Same ?
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The KMA products look very attractive (in a radio-geek sense) but the comparison to the Create Industries that prcguy posted isn't exactly comparing apples to apples. I really got a chuckle out of this comment of his: "The KMA Rover covers 88-1300MHz with about 3dB more gain (twice the boom length) than the 105-1300MHz CREATE and it cost less." TWICE THE BOOM LENGTH as the Create model doesn't exactly make it a fair comparison, and twice the boom length for just 3dB more gain (assuming that's correct info...) was much funnier than some joke about Create Antennas floating away (Create does a much better job listing product specs, including gain figures, than KMA's web -- look for yourself). As for the KMA pricing, unfortunately I get an 404 - Not Found error message when I try to access the KMA site's Price List page.
It's curious to me that the KMA web page shows their VHF/UHF RLPAs in horizontal polarization in the tiny photos, whereas most people would be mounting them vertically.
The Create Industries RLPA I had survived Michigan's icy Winters, rainy Springs & hot Summers without the "plastic" insulators (dare I ask what fantastic material KMA uses for insulators?) ever "exploding" so again, prcguy paints a picture that seems mostly cartoonish, but the KMA products are certainly worth looking into, and I'm sending them email right now.
KMA's web page: http://www.qsl.net/w4kma/index.htm
Create Industries web page: http://www.cd-corp.com/eng/cma/default.htm
I'm sorry we've hijacked this thread about discones!
Here's the discone I expect to have up on my roof in the near future:
http://www.scannermaster.com/DD1300_Double_Discone_Base_Antenna_p/25-541144.htm
If anyone has some direct experience with it & can offer some cogent commentary about it, please do!
Tim
It's curious to me that the KMA web page shows their VHF/UHF RLPAs in horizontal polarization in the tiny photos, whereas most people would be mounting them vertically.
The Create Industries RLPA I had survived Michigan's icy Winters, rainy Springs & hot Summers without the "plastic" insulators (dare I ask what fantastic material KMA uses for insulators?) ever "exploding" so again, prcguy paints a picture that seems mostly cartoonish, but the KMA products are certainly worth looking into, and I'm sending them email right now.
KMA's web page: http://www.qsl.net/w4kma/index.htm
Create Industries web page: http://www.cd-corp.com/eng/cma/default.htm
I'm sorry we've hijacked this thread about discones!
Here's the discone I expect to have up on my roof in the near future:
http://www.scannermaster.com/DD1300_Double_Discone_Base_Antenna_p/25-541144.htm
If anyone has some direct experience with it & can offer some cogent commentary about it, please do!
Tim
How does the double discone work? How would it work for UHF when all the elements look long? and gain? I haven't heard others talk about this one.
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