skatertj
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Hello,
I have recently gotten into sdr's and have finally gotten ahold of a discone. I just got a radioshack discone locally. Previous owner had it up on his tower for a few months, antenna is in great shape besides alittle rust on the radial screw ends. I currently have it in my attic and am recieving signals 40-50 miles away. My attic is only one story up and now im thinking of trying to get it outside with more height.
My idea is to get an eave mount and place the antenna on a 10 ft pole off the eave mount. I am a college student, still with my parents and my father has approved of me putting it outside on one condition. It goes on the side where the house ground rod is already at. This means itll be around a 80 ft run from my computer to the roof where the antenna will be then 10 ft up. Overall 90-100ft.
So, im looking for insight on a few things.
-Is the 10ft un-guyed mast safe with a eave mount? 9 ft above roof, 1 ft for the mount. 1-1/4" Top fence post rail
-how straight does a ground wire need to be? Ill post picture of the side of my house to show how id probably need to run ground wire to reach the ground rod.
-Im looking at just using rg6 quad shield for the run and getting a lna for the db loss. Sound ok?
-Any experience with the radio shack eaves mount?
On the image, where should i route the ground wire?
I have recently gotten into sdr's and have finally gotten ahold of a discone. I just got a radioshack discone locally. Previous owner had it up on his tower for a few months, antenna is in great shape besides alittle rust on the radial screw ends. I currently have it in my attic and am recieving signals 40-50 miles away. My attic is only one story up and now im thinking of trying to get it outside with more height.
My idea is to get an eave mount and place the antenna on a 10 ft pole off the eave mount. I am a college student, still with my parents and my father has approved of me putting it outside on one condition. It goes on the side where the house ground rod is already at. This means itll be around a 80 ft run from my computer to the roof where the antenna will be then 10 ft up. Overall 90-100ft.
So, im looking for insight on a few things.
-Is the 10ft un-guyed mast safe with a eave mount? 9 ft above roof, 1 ft for the mount. 1-1/4" Top fence post rail
-how straight does a ground wire need to be? Ill post picture of the side of my house to show how id probably need to run ground wire to reach the ground rod.
-Im looking at just using rg6 quad shield for the run and getting a lna for the db loss. Sound ok?
-Any experience with the radio shack eaves mount?
On the image, where should i route the ground wire?
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