[Antennas] Mobile Antennas - which shoots best, is strongest?

David J. Ring, Jr. n1ea at arrl.net
Thu Jun 15 12:49:03 EDT 2006


I've been looking at some of the beautiful mobile antennas for sale, in the 
Hi-Q, Predator, and GS antennas.

The Predator is shown here: 
http://kj9t.150m.com/N9JMXs_Predator_1/index.html

The Hi-Q is shown here:  http://www.hiqantennas.com/

The GS antennas are shown here:  http://www.gs-mfg.com/pages/antdiv.html

The GS according to the "Antenna Shoot Out" results shown on their web page, 
seems to perform best, and there is one report that it is made better than 
the Predator, however the Predator will take full legal limit.

I was thinking of using one of these mobile antennas and extending the whip 
and using a capacitive hat and installing it on my roof and using for 80 
meters and above.  If I can get the length around 22 feet, and/or use a 
bigger top hat, I might consider 160 meters!

Could anyone offer any guidance, or point me to any web sites that might 
have some actual "shoot out" ratings?

Thanks in advance for your help!

73

David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
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