Best tri- band base antenna

[BobW55]

I am pushing an antenna up through a 70 foot tree. If it wasnt for the elements, I would use a discone, but it will hang on the branches and such on the way up.
I had an old dual band VHF/UHF up, but the air band really suffered, not to mention the rope broke. I was able, on a really good day, to hear the tower at Flint MI airport, and at times Selfridge ANG.
I was looking at the Scanking antenna
Scanking Antenna
But I have read some not so good reviews on them.
Any other suggestions for a stick like multiband.

 

[prcguy]

The Scanking offers no specifications, none to compare to anything. At $45 I would bet its just several pieces of house wire soldered to a connector inside a plastic pipe. Not an engineered antenna but something cobbled together by someone with no more knowledge than you about antennas. If your comfortable with that then go for it. Or do some research and get a real antenna.

Problem is, an actual multiband antenna covering popular VHF/UHF/700/800MHz ranges with full band width like 136-174, 380-512, 760-870 and more will generally not have any more gain than a dipole on each band and usually less. But I can guarantee that will work much better than the Scanking. An actual engineered antenna that covers the entire VHF/UHF/700/800 bands is also going to be expensive due to the research and testing needed to produce a quality antenna that covers all the bands mentioned and meets reasonable specs.

There are a number of mobile antennas that might work ok but they would need a ground plane kit and you are trying to get away from ground radials. Here is one antenna I have seen recently with no ground radials and its used by a number of Govt agencies to cover all the Govt, public service and amateur freqs in the VHF/UHF/700/800 range but I don't know what they cost. If interested you can contact the mfr and get a quote. Probably expensive but a real antenna is going to cost more than some random wire soldered to a connector inside a tube.

This is a 41" long stick 2.25" dia with believable specs.

(1Y20850) MADP150-450-816 - Hascall-Denke

hascall-denke.com

 

[BobW55]

Thanks will have a look. Thought about grabbing my antenna book and just make one.

 

[BobW55]

Think I am going to just build a flower pot style cut for about 127 Mhz. I get Military air and most local 800 stuff just fine on a rubber duck, so anything outside and 70 Feet up will be a plus, even if not cut for those frequencies.