Multiband discone antenna

[KeithJoseph]

Can someone give me an exact list of materials needed to build my own mutiband discone antenna. I'm wanting to listen in on everything in my area. Potosi Abilene tuscola etc.

 

[crayon]

I did not spend too much time on google on your behalf ..

Instructables Post on Building a Discone Antenna

I like SDR's so that is why I picked that URL. ... there may be others that you would like better.

 

[KeithJoseph]

I can use this on my regular scanner tight? I k ow nothing on the sdr...

 

[mule1075]

Can someone give me an exact list of materials needed to build my own mutiband discone antenna. I'm wanting to listen in on everything in my area. Potosi Abilene tuscola etc.

Might be cheaper just to buy one depending on the cost of materials. In the link provided in one of the other posts in the thread it looked between $100 &$130. You can pickup a diamond discone for as low as $89.99 plus shipping.

 

[KeithJoseph]

Ok Kool thanks alot.

 

[vagrant]

Amazon will sell you a list of parts for a discone and include the parts for $46.52.
https://www.amazon.com/Tram-1410-Discone-Scanner-Antenna/dp/B00QVPGKHU

You will also need some coax and possibly an adapter at either the antenna connection or your scanner. Mounting the antenna outdoors above the roofline is a good thing for improved reception, but not necessarily mandatory.

 

[KeithJoseph]

I'm broke as a joke so I'm trying to build one myself. I wish I could afford to purchase one from the net.

 

[doctordialtone]

include the parts for $46.52.

What are you going to buy the materials with? Cans and bottles?

 

[vagrant]

Hey, hey, hey, when you see me walking along the highway picking up cans and bottles, give me a friendly honk. Morse code please or I won't know it's you.

I purchased that Tram antenna I noted for can and bottle money. It swept well enough on an analyzer from 100 MHz to 1.3 GHz, with the dips it lists for transmitting.

 

[prcguy]

Do you have any coax to feed a Discone?

I'm broke as a joke so I'm trying to build one myself. I wish I could afford to purchase one from the net.

 

[bearcatrp]

Hey, hey, hey, when you see me walking along the highway picking up cans and bottles, give me a friendly honk. Morse code please or I won't know it's you.

I purchased that Tram antenna I noted for can and bottle money. It swept well enough on an analyzer from 100 MHz to 1.3 GHz, with the dips it lists for transmitting.

Looks good. Is there an option for a top element?

 

[pak715]

I just ordered the tram on ebay for $37.00 shipped free to replace the ol radio shack I still have up there. Thing is you cant buy the parts you need that cheap. Dang my 1/4 wave copper wire ground plane (home made) cost me that much or more. Rake some leaves, cut some lawns. You can do it. Best of luck.

 

[vagrant]

Looks good. Is there an option for a top element?

The option would be to purchase a different Tram model or different brand of discone, depending on what band/frequency range a vertical would offer.

As pak715 noted, the 1410 can be purchased/shipped for around $37 from eBay. That is quite germane to this thread and the OPs subsequent posts, as the materials and tools to build one will cost more than $37.

 

[KeithJoseph]

Thank you. Now that's the kind of positive comments I need. Thank you again.

 

[spacellamaman]

i realize you are broke but having many times done the same thing you are wanting to do i can tell you its going to be tricky getting even junk components of the right type etc and get it constructed for less than fifty bucks, at least easily and if you count in time and effort.

i have been more than pleased with this one:

Sky-band Antenna | Scanner Master

its not the biggest or the smallest but i suddenly can pick up the local airport awos. its over ten miles thru the woods away from me and of 5 watt power. i have tried all sorts of things over the years and never been able to recieve the awos, and never thought i would. the bottom of the radials is about 5.5 feet off the ground so its really not all that high up mounted. btw the mount is an old dish tv tripod and some scrap pvc.

also just using RG-6 scrounged up somewhere thrift store or dumpster at some point, with coax adapters on each end.

 

[prcguy]

If the OP can tell me if he has coax or not I'll know if I need to add that to a free Discone I can ship him. Lack of $$ should not keep you from having fun.

 

[spacellamaman]

let it never be said that prcguy ain't The Man.

 

[bearcatrp]

i realize you are broke but having many times done the same thing you are wanting to do i can tell you its going to be tricky getting even junk components of the right type etc and get it constructed for less than fifty bucks, at least easily and if you count in time and effort.

i have been more than pleased with this one:

Sky-band Antenna | Scanner Master

its not the biggest or the smallest but i suddenly can pick up the local airport awos. its over ten miles thru the woods away from me and of 5 watt power. i have tried all sorts of things over the years and never been able to recieve the awos, and never thought i would. the bottom of the radials is about 5.5 feet off the ground so its really not all that high up mounted. btw the mount is an old dish tv tripod and some scrap pvc.

also just using RG-6 scrounged up somewhere thrift store or dumpster at some point, with coax adapters on each end.

How is the sky band antenna compared to a discone with a whip on top? Looks to receive the same frequencies from what I have compared. Like the price.

 

[spacellamaman]

well if i can ever get around to removing the screw at the top of the sky band discone, and happen to discover that its 3/8-24 thread as i hope it is, ill let ya know.

hmmmm......ummmm....well i fully intend to....i was going to do so when i raised the mast another 3 foot section...which i just got done doing.....dang i wish i had forgotten the whole thing now.