Tram 1410 200-Watt Broad-Band Scanner 25 MHz to 1,300 MHz Super Discone Stainless Steel Base Antenna

Easy to assemble and works great for SDR scanner. Be sure to check connections and order adapters and cables as required.

I use this antenna strictly for receiving VHF/UHF with my SDRPlay RSPdx. After five years of reliable service I can attest to the quality of this antenna for receive purposes. It hasn't had a single problem, successfully making it through searing hot Idaho summers, frigid Idaho winters, and occasional 60mph winds. It's elevated 16' in the air on 4 fiberglass military surplus masts, fed by 50' of RG58 coax. Value for this antenna is truly remarkable. Its receiving capabilities on the 20 and 10 meter HF bands is an added bonus. If you need a capable and reliable UHV/VHF receiving antenna, you can't go wrong with the TRAM 1410.

SDR Play works perfectly with this, and it is nice having this for monitoring on the computer

I have 3 of these now: one from years ago, and two bought recently. On the newer ones, the radials are indexed to align with and obscure the mounting set screws. Really? On the older one, the radials are indexed so the set screws are in the gaps between radials. I tried to loosen the bolt and change the alignment, but it felt like I was going to break something. Maybe I'll try again with the third one. These make great broadband test antennas, and they are 1/20 the price of a biconical test dipole.- Yep. I broke the 3rd one trying to disassemble it. That's OK, I'm just using the radials as a test ground plane for own antenna. I drilled out the center of the hub to 3/8" diameter to pass an SMA cable. The indexing between the radial hub and the mounting collar set screws is determined when those two pieces are press fit together. The through-bolt all the way to the SO-239 center contact are one machined piece, which broke when I tried to loosen the bolt.

I like this antenna a lot.....its very well made and easy to assemble. I have mine mounted in the attic and use it mostly for 10 meter listening and 700 MHz P25 public safety radio. It's performance on 10 meters is outstanding even though technically that's at the low end of its bandwidth. There's an exellent video on youtube which demonstrates very mediocre SWR across its range but if you're using it strictly for receive that's really not an issue. I have a bank of SDR receivers feeding off this antenna for various bands and its a great setup.

Function wise, this works very well. I have it mounted on an eve mount about 15’ up. It is wide-banded and I am now receiving signals I never heard before. Very happy about that. It is well made, and should last many years in the weather. Make sure you tighten the radials well before putting it up.My only nit to pick is how it mounts. I understand because of the radials it presents mounting challenges, but you are limited to mount it on the top of an antenna pole and run the coax inside. Just be aware of this when you order it.

I needed something for my SDS200 to get good signal while broadcasting to Broadcastify. This discone replaced a dipole that I was using and you will automatically notice the difference. This was not even set high and gets around 20-30 miles in small mountain areas.

Tram makes two discones. The 1411 has a whip and two longer radials and the 1410 doesn't have a whip and has radials all the same size. Which do you choose? As you can see by the photos, I have both. I chose the 1410 over the 1411 because it doesn't have a whip on it which would detune the antenna above it due to overlap. I am using it with a Uniden SDS100 scanner and am picking up airport AM traffic, my local trunked transit system, 700mHz APCO trunked law enforcement and UHF/VHF emergency response. I also have used it to transmit on 2m and 70cm. The antenna is a bargain compared to others of its type, which makes it even more impressive.My 1411 is on the opposite side of the house and is used for transmit from a ham HT. Why on the opposite side of the house? There are cases when I need to either use my radios as a repeater or transmit on two close frequencies at the same time. A whip on a discone offers much better SWR than no whip which is why I am using the one with a whip for transmit and the one without a whip for my scanner. So there you have it. Two fine antennas each with their own use.This antenna uses set screws to mount on the TOP of a 1"-1.5" mast with the cable threaded through the center of the mast. With little weight or wind resistance, I decided to mount it to the side of my existing mast about a meter under my Diamond 2M antenna by using a Winegard DS-2000 Universal 22-inch Tower Mount with half of a 5' mast inserted into the Winegard pipe and secured using a rubber plumbing reducer wrapped with gobs of Proxicast Pro-Grade Extra Strong 30mil Weatherproof Self-Fusing Silicone Rubber tape.