Just purchased this antenna and it arrived bright and early this morning.
I haven't had the chance to test SWR extensively yet, but it seems good in most places, and it is being used on an existing installation, that works great with other antennas.
This antenna has gotten a couple rave reviews here, and other places as well. I'm using it mainly for business band stuff, but with its broadband capabilities figured it would be nice to have 1 antenna for that plus ham frequencies as well.
After hooking it up this morning, this antenna is being SEVERELY outperformed everywhere by even the 1/4 wave whip that it was meant to replace. The performance difference is 2, sometimes 3 bars lower (XPR5550) on this antenna vs. the 1/4 wave.
Anybody have any clue as to what might be going on? It was brand new from Laird, not used or anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, since I'm just lost.
I haven't had the chance to test SWR extensively yet, but it seems good in most places, and it is being used on an existing installation, that works great with other antennas.
This antenna has gotten a couple rave reviews here, and other places as well. I'm using it mainly for business band stuff, but with its broadband capabilities figured it would be nice to have 1 antenna for that plus ham frequencies as well.
After hooking it up this morning, this antenna is being SEVERELY outperformed everywhere by even the 1/4 wave whip that it was meant to replace. The performance difference is 2, sometimes 3 bars lower (XPR5550) on this antenna vs. the 1/4 wave.
Anybody have any clue as to what might be going on? It was brand new from Laird, not used or anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, since I'm just lost.