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Harris Unity Multiband/LMR Full Spectrum Antenna Info?

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Recently acquired a pair of these mobile antennas. Anyone have any technical info/specs or manual? They look like they can be tuned but I've seen a reference online that they may be factory tuned. Not much online about them. Supposed to be multiband VHF/UHF/800.

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- Rob

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Excellent, thank you for that info. They have a slide on them with two hex screws so that was why I wasn't sure of field tuning. Seems to be a multiband j-pole configuration. Yes, they are expensive new but I got them for a little more than a 1/4 wave antenna price. :)

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$210 list price, not that anyone should be paying list…. That is an insane price for a mobile antenna even with ~30% off list.

I'm not sure if they are J-Poles. J pole would be 1/2 wave, and while the install guide does want at least 5 feet of coax between the base and the radio, the design suggests it's just two whips.

One way to check would be to carefully loosen those set screws and see if the bar moves. If it does, see if the bar is conductive and if the set screws bite into the whips.

We're slowly migrating to XL-200m's and I'm going with the Larsen or EM-Wave multiband antennas. About 1/4 of the list price of the Harris/Sti-Co.
 
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We're slowly migrating to XL-200m's and I'm going with the Larsen or EM-Wave multiband antennas. About 1/4 of the list price of the Harris/Sti-Co.
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does the XL-200 have multiple antenna ports?
 
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