af5rn
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This question is very specifically about ONLY scanner antennas, not cellphone antennas or others being used for scanning. And yes, I already know that glass mount sucks and metal mount is better. That said...
I'd like to hear opinions and observations from personal experience with any of the glass mount, cellular look-alike scanner antennas out there. There are two that I am aware of, being the Radio Shack model and the Antenna Specialist model available at Scanner Master.
I had a friend about a decade ago who swore his Rat Shack glass mount performed better on all bands than his Rat Shack mag mount scanner antenna. Spending a little time riding around with him, the performance did seem pretty good, albeit in a mostly urban environment. What are your observations? Better performance at certain bands than others? Which bands? Anybody used both models and found a particular preference or edge for one over the other?
Basically, I need to put one -- and only one -- glass mount antenna on a sedan for all-band scanning, but with most of it being in the 800mhz band. I''m trying to figure out if I'd be better off using an 800mhz antenna and just taking what I can get for lower band performance out of it, or using an all-band scanner antenna that would be decent on all bands, but sacrificing some 800mhz performance. Opinions FROM EXPERIENCE would be appreciated.
Thanks, guys!
I'd like to hear opinions and observations from personal experience with any of the glass mount, cellular look-alike scanner antennas out there. There are two that I am aware of, being the Radio Shack model and the Antenna Specialist model available at Scanner Master.
I had a friend about a decade ago who swore his Rat Shack glass mount performed better on all bands than his Rat Shack mag mount scanner antenna. Spending a little time riding around with him, the performance did seem pretty good, albeit in a mostly urban environment. What are your observations? Better performance at certain bands than others? Which bands? Anybody used both models and found a particular preference or edge for one over the other?
Basically, I need to put one -- and only one -- glass mount antenna on a sedan for all-band scanning, but with most of it being in the 800mhz band. I''m trying to figure out if I'd be better off using an 800mhz antenna and just taking what I can get for lower band performance out of it, or using an all-band scanner antenna that would be decent on all bands, but sacrificing some 800mhz performance. Opinions FROM EXPERIENCE would be appreciated.
Thanks, guys!