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Great Midwest Blizzard

Southern Wisconsin and the Windy City are socked with snow. Yet in Northern Wisconsin we are experiencing blue skies and temps of a balmy 16 degrees. As an advisory, many of my antennas are shipped through the USPS sorting facility in Milwaukee. If you ordered an...

J-Pole scanner antennas

The J-Pole antenna is an excellent choice for a low cost scanner antenna that is capable of picking up signals from a wide range of frequencies. Many scanner aficionados prefer the discone antenna, but the J-Pole has some distinct advantages over discones for scanner...
Painting the J-Pole Antenna

Painting the J-Pole Antenna

I get a lot of questions about the 2 meter copper J-Pole antenna related to painting it.  Many users have different reasons why they would want to paint the J-Pole antenna, but the majority of reasons usually boil down to ways in which to hide the antenna, make...

J-Pole survives the blizzard of 2010

Today we’re busy digging out from the one of the biggest snow storms of the season. On Saturday the upper Midwest received anywhere from 9 to 20 inches of snow in a 24 hour period. Once the snow stopped falling, the wind picked up with 35 mph gusts and frigid...