Hey everyone,
I have a 2016 Dodge Charger, and I am looking for advise on mounting three antennas on the vehicle. I will start off by saying I WILL NOT be drilling any holes in the vehicle. I am looking for the optimum location to mount all three antennas. I would like to keep the antennas in the trunk area because two of the three radios will be mounted in the trunk (both are remote mount). I do have three trunk-lip mount NMO antenna mounts to use.
Here's what I have;
Kenwood NX-5800 UHF - (used for my duties as a first responder in my county)
- Laird TRAB4503 antenna
Motorola XTL2500 UHF - (used for my day job in P25 conventional)
- Laird TRAB4503 antenna
Uniden BCD996P2 - (used to monitor 800 mhz. state radio system)
- PCTEL BMAX8155S antenna
Both the NX-5800, and the XTL2500 were issued to me by the county and my job respectively. I use the XTL2500 everyday, however the NX-5800 only gets used for first response activities, which are few and far between. NOTE: The XTL and NX are never transmitted on at the same time (and are rarely even turned on at the same time).
So I guess I am trying to figure out the best location on my trunk to orient the antennas to get the best performance. I would assume I would need to keep both UHF antennas spaced as far apart as I can? Possibly on the driver and passenger sides of the trunk, then the middle (closest to the rear window) for the 800mhz antenna?
I have a 2016 Dodge Charger, and I am looking for advise on mounting three antennas on the vehicle. I will start off by saying I WILL NOT be drilling any holes in the vehicle. I am looking for the optimum location to mount all three antennas. I would like to keep the antennas in the trunk area because two of the three radios will be mounted in the trunk (both are remote mount). I do have three trunk-lip mount NMO antenna mounts to use.
Here's what I have;
Kenwood NX-5800 UHF - (used for my duties as a first responder in my county)
- Laird TRAB4503 antenna
Motorola XTL2500 UHF - (used for my day job in P25 conventional)
- Laird TRAB4503 antenna
Uniden BCD996P2 - (used to monitor 800 mhz. state radio system)
- PCTEL BMAX8155S antenna
Both the NX-5800, and the XTL2500 were issued to me by the county and my job respectively. I use the XTL2500 everyday, however the NX-5800 only gets used for first response activities, which are few and far between. NOTE: The XTL and NX are never transmitted on at the same time (and are rarely even turned on at the same time).
So I guess I am trying to figure out the best location on my trunk to orient the antennas to get the best performance. I would assume I would need to keep both UHF antennas spaced as far apart as I can? Possibly on the driver and passenger sides of the trunk, then the middle (closest to the rear window) for the 800mhz antenna?