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Hi

The sentence fragment "transceiving signals from 30 MHz to 300 MHz" is incorrect as can be seen in the pictures and elsewhere Biconical antennas can be used from around 20MHz through to above 20 GHz, an individual Bicone can function over several octaves within this range.

--194.201.250.209 11:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC) Steve Cole[reply]

Fixed frequency range statement to use octaves instead. 3 octaves is based on the listed frequency ranges of antennas in the article, i.e. .5-3.0 GHz, 1-18 GHz, 30 to 300 MHz, are all about 3 octaves, sometimes more.

74.193.185.169 19:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Google research seems to indicate that the preferred name for this class of antenna is biconic not biconical. 75.140.251.185 (talk) 04:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See discussion page for discone antenna. Applicable here, as the two are merely distinct usages of the same theory and math.

75.140.251.185 (talk) 08:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What the heck are these antennas used for?[edit]

What the heck are these antennas used for? Would these make good UHF TV antennas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.130.47 (talk) 02:18, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They are used for measurements of RF fields and as general purpose wideband reception antennas. They are no good for TV reception as they are not directive so they don't reject ghost images from reflections. Sv1xv (talk) 20:06, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the bow tie antenna is a flat version of this antenna, and is frequently used for tv reception. Of course, lots of bad antenans are used on tvs. This antenna can be used any time you need a broad band omnidirectional antenna. I see that someone added a picture of one and labeled it "butterfly" and specifically said it was for tv. Commercial bow tie antennas are typically just a stiff wire in that shape. --ssd (talk) 15:27, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]