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Mobile Flatside Antenna's
- Thread starter Brotherman
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sherlock
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Brotherman,
I have the preditor 10k flat. I am no expert on antennas but the antenna is actually a verticle with the stinger mounted horizontal. Members call them flatside but it is a verticle. The antenna really works good.
I have the preditor 10k flat. I am no expert on antennas but the antenna is actually a verticle with the stinger mounted horizontal. Members call them flatside but it is a verticle. The antenna really works good.
I understand thats its a vertical.. but since the stinger is mounted horizontally, I was thinking that it would be for talking flatside.
I was planning on getting one, but if they're just another version of a vertical, I'll just stick to my monkey made.
I was planning on getting one, but if they're just another version of a vertical, I'll just stick to my monkey made.
The horizontal antenna doesn't talk all that much "flat side" but keeps more of the signal on the ground and is a very good antenna for talking skip. Kalesherlock said:Brotherman,
I have the preditor 10k flat. I am no expert on antennas but the antenna is actually a verticle with the stinger mounted horizontal. Members call them flatside but it is a verticle. The antenna really works good.
Where can I get a horizontal at? The website I've been to either doesn't have it listed or doesn't have online ordering options.
Brotherman, email me at cowtown10k@msn.com. KaleBrotherman said:Where can I get a horizontal at? The website I've been to either doesn't have it listed or doesn't have online ordering options.
Please excuse my ignorance, but would adding a capacitance hat to the top of a antenna radiate the same as a "mobile flatside"?
I beleive I will be buying 2 predator flatsides after Christmas. I installed a bounce back system on my p/u truck and could tell a difference right away on the Dx.
I even got my name called on "the bowl" a few times during heavy conditions. I have never been able to do that with just one antenna. And I didn't even go through the process of fine tuning yet. That was with a monkey made as a hot antenna and a browning antenna as the relector(somebody gave it to me)
I just had to tell somebody, I tried telling my wife and she was looking at me like I had 10 heads on my shoulders..lol..
I even got my name called on "the bowl" a few times during heavy conditions. I have never been able to do that with just one antenna. And I didn't even go through the process of fine tuning yet. That was with a monkey made as a hot antenna and a browning antenna as the relector(somebody gave it to me)
I just had to tell somebody, I tried telling my wife and she was looking at me like I had 10 heads on my shoulders..lol..
I have done the same thing with and 55 mobile antenna. I used and old element from a maco 103. ....it was the back door and grounded to the truck and the 55 was the hot one. That was a good dx talking set up. ...with a 8 pill
I think it was about 10" inches taller then 55. I also used that basic set in a shootout comp. and won the four pill class in the NW corner 2002. ...