Well the taller the antenna will always help with range but chances are the way it was tuned last or something along those lines makes a diff..
Where ant is mounted,the ant stud coax ect ect all can play a huge roll in tx/rec..
In my case on side band(which doesnt really count)i have picked up ever so briefly italy and a few parts of europe,when skip conditions are good on am i have gone across the usa from eastern canada..When its on am mobile to mobile i have squeezed out 40 mi..There are some who almost double that..One fella with a cascadia and a 102 whip on a 5" shaft did 75 mi..He runs a 955,i have a 955 and the fella on the other end of the 75 was useing a anytone 6666 but he was in a 4 wheeler with ant through the roof..All 3 radios used same tech so its not the radio in my case..Something im missing in my antenna set up..
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A two-foot antenna will cripple RF performance no matter what the radio or who the tuner. The taller, the better.
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I think the Helical antennas attempt to do what the 102 whip does but I'm not sure they achieve that with their shorter whip and coils. -
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I'm not sure where I could put a 7ft stick antenna on a dump truck.
The Helicals come close at 92% efficiency. The 7ft SkipShooter is 96% efficient.
I bet one day we'll see very small antennas with all the performance of a long tall whip antenna.Oxbow Thanks this. -
Yep, if/when we get to VHF / UHF. Otherwise, the antenna physics don't get us there unless we can access satellites or magic or maybe the Green New Deal
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As for mount if your mirror is like the cascadias there is a mount and it will have to lean anout 45 deg otherwise it will lean back to far at at highway speed..
Ss makes ant down to 4ft i think..
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