I know I'm gonna get slack for this but I felt I had to share. Yesterday morning I left from my home in Chicago and headed to Wisconsin to pick up my daughter well while talking on my radio I suddenly had no receive and SWR jumped to 3+ across the band on a magnum 257hp and a wilson1000 so I stop at a truck stop near Gurnee Illinois and no matter what I did the wilson was shot. So I go to buy a antenna in the shop only to find the only 2 magnetics are a pyramid type like wal mart sells or a road pro 36" radio shack looking one. Well for $16.99+tax I tried the road pro and after tuning got a 1.4 SWR on 1 and 40 and about a 1.2 on 20 so back to the road I went. I planned on returning this on the return trip but I actually decided to keep it as a back up as I found I was able to get out pretty well and got many reports from truckers that it sounded good. 1 guy told me he had heard me for about 20 minutes before keying up and found we where traveling towards each other and he was still about 3 miles in front of me I talked to him for about another 15 minutes before losing him in the receive. I think my radio has a lot to do with my findings but still so far not a bad antenna for under $20. I can hear many of you screaming at me to get another Wilson....I did this evening a new Wilson 5000 magnetic. My wife drives a new car and I can only use a Mag mount on it. And the roadpro has been put in storage in her trunk just incase.
