What's your best 3 mobile antennas?

[Groundhog KSS-2012]

Ok all. What's your best/favorite 3 mobile antennas?
I'll start.

1. 102" SS Whip
2. Sirio Performer 5000
3. 63" Almighty Antennas AA-700

I've had better local and skip contacts with these 3 than any others in my collection.
Runner ups are the 7' Skip Shooter and 5' Wilson Silver Load, also the Browning BR-28 with the round coil, not flat.
I don't own a Predator 10k so I personally can't comment on that antenna.
(I guess I should have posted this under 'antennas', anyway.

 

[AudioShockwav]

For 11 meter mobile ?
1- 96" Francis triple quarter wave
2- Stainless whip
3- Predator 10k single coil with 27" shaft

73
Jeff

 

[Groundhog KSS-2012]

For 11 meter mobile ?
1- 96" Francis triple quarter wave
2- Stainless whip
3- Predator 10k single coil with 27" shaft

73
Jeff

I suppose the Francis triple quarter wave is impossible to get, or find, these days huh?
10 and 11 meters I forgot to add that.

 

[fourstringburn]

102 whip
Sirio 5000
Predator 10k Single coil with 27 inch shaft.

All 3 antennas are long. The Sirio and Predator are nearly 7 ft when tuned which could be a problem for some mobile installs.

 

[AudioShockwav]

I suppose the Francis triple quarter wave is impossible to get, or find, these days huh?
10 and 11 meters I forgot to add that.

Yes they are impossible to find now.
Around 2005 I called around the US looking for them.
I found a music shop in North Carolina that sold CB radios and antennas.
They had 2 CB-50 antennas in stock, I bought both of them.
He put them in a 10 foot stick of pvc pipe and shipped them to me.
That was the last new ones I could find.

73
Jeff

 

[midnight special]

102 inch whip with a 6 inch spring
old wilson not chinese junk 5000 base loaded
old francis amazer

 

[groundwire]

R55, P10k, 1/4 wave stick

 

[Blackcat630]

1. 108 stainless steel whip breedlove ball mounted to rear fender

2. Sirio P500 permanent mount top of truck cab.

3. Wilson 5000 or 1000 (American made Pre barjan) permanent mount top of truck cab.

 

[TM86]

Radio Shack magnet mount
Wilson Lil' Will
Wilson 1000

Not because they're actually any good, but because that's all I've owned.

 

[Dr_DX]

All Around - GR45 - Kills any other mobile antenna in Skip land and horizontally; holds it's own vertically
Toughest - 102" on HD mount center of roof (no spring) with inductor to ground to get X=0
Broadest bandwidth - Dual Coil P10K
Best Factory Mag mount - Stryker SR-A10MM/Wilson 5000 w/ RG400 coax

All installs using custom built CMC choke at antenna feed point.

to rf choke or not

does anybody know the correct amount of turn for the 11-meter band to end up with a 1.1 feed I'm picking up a 2 pill base amp and I know they don't run 100% clean I read that this type is more effective than the second pic on PVC pipe

www.worldwidedx.com

 

[walterjn]

102" stainless is the best, just hard to get mounted where they need to be on some vehicles...
Currently running a Monkey Made MM9 with a breedlove mount. It is mounted on 1/8" steel that the bed is made of at the same height as the roof; if it were on the roof.
It is not tuned as low as possible, because I haven't had the extra disposable $$ for the coax I want, and getting my amp fixed yet... I'll get there...

 

[Onelasttime]

108" whip or 102" whip with 6 inch aluminum bar to get to 108"!

Open external capacitor antenna like monkey made and the like.


In the magnet mount category Wilson 5000 or K40.

 

[Onelasttime]

I think it was Antron that made a "Quad Rod" and my mentor thought they where really good.