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As crude as it sounds, a long piece of wire would be lowest cost and work the best for a range of 100KHz to 1.3GHz. Or do you mean 100MHz to 1.3 GHz? A discone is said to work well for that. Best to avoid preamps. Use heavy gauge coax cabe for lower loss especially at the GHz end.