Of course this is nothing new to Hackaday readers, but they did manage to build one of the best antennas for their TV dongle. It’s a discone antenna, and is perfectly suited for tuning into a ...

The conical antenna family includes biconical dipoles, "monocone" monopoles, and discone antennas. The electromagnetics of conical elements were examined by Schelkunoff and others in the 1930s. Now, ...