"Rob Mills" wrote in message
news:QGQRb.2735$EW.2331@okepread02...

I am smack dab in the middle of tornado alley and have been thinking as
Jeff
mentioned the ground plane will be quite a target. I was considering
selling
one but am now thinking I'll put up the ground plane and keep the
Scantenna
as a spare as I don't have much invested in either.

Is that 9913 a small diameter or large dia coax? Expensive? I'm needing to
put up 2 sw antennas and 1 scanner ant so will need quite a bit. Was
thinking I would use RG6. RM~
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If you live in tornado alley you would probably be better off
with the RS grd plane. I use to have one and they were built way better
than the scantenna. I believe the wind load for the 2 would be approximately
the same, the RS is bigger overall but the scantenna has more vertical
surface to catch the wind. I use to have both the scantenna and the RS,
and after the first freezing rain/wind storm we had the scantenna ended
but looking like a pretzel, the RS was fine. As far as the coax is concerned
skip the 9913 for the scanners and use a good RG 6, and RG 58 is
fine for SW antennas that only are used up to 30mhz. or so. 9913 is big
and stiff and expensive, not to mention hard to work with.