For the last 3 years, I have been using that RS ground plane that you had
described in your post. The antenna is mounted on the side of the house,
peak of the roof, (about 35' up). I use Belden 9913 coax (low loss) and get
pretty decent results on VHF and UHF. Doesn't seem to work that well on 800
mhz and above. If thats what you are primarily interested in monitoring, you
might want to consider another antenna.


Chris