@ogbt
7:07 I believe they still use AM because of the FM capture effect, where a strong FM signal will over power a weaker signal.
@almightyEsquilax
12 string sounding great!
@-someone-.
When you held the antenna up and said what is it, torture device, 😅I thought you were gonna strum the guitar with it😂 This is awesome tho, I’m gonna get one!
@ogbt
I just ordered one of these last week, can’t wait to start scanning when it finally shows up.
@AlanDampog
I have that antenna! I use it with my nRSP-ST. good stuff
@TahoeMtnMan
Nice Boston cover. Antenna is off Amazon presently. Thanks for the videos.
@vonzigle
Thanks!
@Atomshamradio
Really cool information thanks
@blave549
THANKS for this. I have had an RTL-SDR v3 for years but never got much out of it, prolly b/c I don't have a decent antenna (I only have the rabbit ears one that they selll with the dongle, and also an inline "LNA4ALL" amplifier between the dongle and the antenna). I had just started to research better antennas and learned the word "discone" only last week. BTW I just checked the AMZ link you provided and that product is Currently Unavailable. BTW #2 years and years ago I had the Godin electric that you have on your wall, but in blue and in lefty. If it had a whammy bar I'd probably still have it, but man it was heavy. Neat guitar though!
@todddavid3695
Next time you are near Tucson, Arizona, go by the Titan Missile Museum. Licensed Amateur Radio operators can schedule time on their HF discone. It's a lot of fun. You can see photos online as to how huge it is.
@BreannaVK3BBS
Air band is still using AM because it avoids the capture effect of FM allowing weaked stations to be heard.
@Atomshamradio
I love to hear that on shortwave
@BrotherTimothyClark
aircraft are on AM because when two transmit at once, they can still be heard that there's say two of them. FM is much worse for aircraft. Now there is aircraft on FM but, they use repeaters. Our local life flight services use fm repeaters but of corse they also talk on AM to the airports.😊
@Josh_FSD
That would be awesome to find an ATSC decoder, I have been looking for months and all I can find is decoders for the rest of the world "DVB" or whatever it's called... Hope you find something for ATSC!!!!
@wtmayhew
True discone antennas are non directional and have no gain over isotopic. For the antenna in the video, the disc is a ground plane and the resonators installed above are Marconi type 1/4 wave verticals. Those verticals have gain over isotopic by emphasizing the sensitivity pattern of certain bands in the direction of the ground and sacrificing sensitivity above. There’s no free lunch. You’ll often see discone antennas without vertical resonators on airport control towers. The reason discone antennas are on control towers isn’t that they’re high gain antennas but rather they are non resonant and have a fairly flat sensitivity in all directions, which is good when you want to be able to hear aircraft in all directions and all altitudes on various frequencies. Discone antennas are good if you understand the trade off between non directionality and no gain in sensitivity over isotopic. I have a discone ready to install for over the air ATSC TV reception. I live in an urban area where the signals are strong with stations in many different directions from where I live. The TV spectrum I need to receive is almost 400 MHz wide. A discone is perfect for the application. I have been using an indoor antenna, but the digital hash generated by the TV itself desenses its own receiver. Hopefully an outdoor antenna with a low loss feed line will be sufficient to get away from the RF noise generated by the TV. I confirmed that the TV is the culprit by using a DVR receiver with the TV off and it receives channels which are difficult when the TV is on.
@clevelog
Could you please list the name of your receiver and the SDR attachment? Thank you.
@dannyglas3616
Can I use this to transmit with an SDR transmitter?
@Knarf14
I remember walking i to a radio shack and buying a doscone for like $50 , thats crazy
@bradgreenwood2588
Awesome bumper. I’ve always wondered is a discone better than a long wire for receive if you have room for the long wire?
@KM6LYW