JTD2 ANTENNA

[jaymatt1978]

I have the antenna in my attic in Cape May,NJ and I LOVE IT. Great reception, even have some band opening as far down as Virginia and get the railroads in Philadelphia which is wonderful. The one thin though low band. I literally live right on the water and have never gotten a lowband station besides CB I see me counterparts in Northern NJ getting low band left and right while I get zip. Be nice to get ONE hit.. Any hints on what I could do besides get another antgenna

 

[krokus]

It looks like you have the whip on your discone, so you should pick some up, unless you have metal shingles.

Do you monitor the lowband logs thread?

 

[ab5r]

What frequencies are calling "LOW band??

 

[jaymatt1978]

Yess I have a whip. an to answer what I can "LOW BAD" 24-50MHz

It looks like you have the whip on your discone, so you should pick some up, unless you have metal shingles.

Do you monitor the lowband logs thread?

 

[Hooligan]

"LOW BAD" 24-50MHz

First of all, that antenna really isn't designed to do VHF-Low Band all that well, but absolutely, during a band-opening, you should hear stuff with it.

VHF Low-Band propagation (skip) is often rather specific in-terms of time, spectrum & geography so don't give-up hope. I usually search 24-87.875MHz in various FM bandwidths -- make sure you're searching in FM mode. Sooner or later you should at-least catch some 10-Meter FM repeater & simplex activity. Put a handful or the popular 10-meter & 6-meter ham FM repeater outputs & FM simplex calling channels (like 52.525) in the scanner so when you're scanning normal stuff & there's a local band opening in that spectrum for you, you'll know it & can then focus on searching VHF-Low.