mastr
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If it was within my power the rule would be "if you drive our car through a car wash, drive it back to the station and go home."
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Help finding a Multi-band Low Profile Antenna
- Thread starter KHolloway63
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If it was within my power the rule would be "if you drive our car through a car wash, drive it back to the station and go home."
rescuecomm
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What happened to using trustees to wash cop cars?
what is it 1960? Most urban departments do not even have local jails.
rf_patriot200
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We do, and yep our Trustees do the dirty work.
I used that antenna for the scanner, until I got the actual scanner antenna (MFJ discone). It does hear better!
The Larsen performed well, just stuck up on the steel roof on the magmount, but I got the scanner antenna up about 8' higher, and I can hear the Jeff City ham repeater now.
For fully marked cars the compromise antennae do not make any sense at all other than convenience at the car wash. Unmarked cars, yeah I get it, but for fully marked I'd be putting the best performing antenna I can find on there regardless of its size. Down the road after the puck antennae are performing poorly they come back complaining and its all your fault.
The best you are going to get for "low profile" is either a Sti-Co flexi-whip multiband, or, my recommendation would be to use the APX8500 triplexer and break it out to a sharkfin for UHF and 800, and a Sti-Co flexi-whip for VHF.
What model are you recommending?
The above one uses a patch antenna on the window for 7/800. This one is what we use which is the sharkfin with tri-band whip:
STI-CO Industries, Inc.
VHF / UHF / 700 - 800 Covert Universal OEM Shark Fin Antenna with Flexi-Whip™
STI-CO Industries, Inc.
VHF / UHF / 700 - 800 Covert Universal OEM Shark Fin Antenna with Flexi-Whip™
Panorama or Sti-co. Neither are cheap.
APX8500 triplexer.
I just received an email from Arcadian today.
nwf.soundestlink.com
The price range is $145 to $180.
I know that you said that you were looking for Laird, but the email said in-stock, same day shipping, since you mentioned that you had one, but the lead time was long.
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Arcadian, Inc. is a master stocking distributor of ANTENNAS for Cellular M2M, UHF RFID, Public Safety/LMR & iDAS. Arcadian also offers related wireless gear including antenna mounting brackets, coaxial cable, enclosures, connectors and cable assemblies.
nwf.soundestlink.com
The price range is $145 to $180.
I know that you said that you were looking for Laird, but the email said in-stock, same day shipping, since you mentioned that you had one, but the lead time was long.
mmckenna
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Interesting antenna. Not impressive performance, but if VHF isn't important, it might be a good solution for some.
With only one feedline, I'm baffled by the decision to use 7/8" hole mounting. While fine for new installs, it's a royal pain in the butt to replace an NMO mount with one of those.
I noticed the hole size also. My gut tells me there will be another model using the same case ? I have a few tri band for LTE and stuff that has 3 cables dropped from it.
With that said I plan to order on to try. For 90% of my comms on VHF its car-car or repeaters. Car-car operations are normally in front of or behind the user. May be ideal for that situation. If I can get an antenna on a vehicle vs a portable in the cup holder it may be a sell for a few co workers as well.
With that said I plan to order on to try. For 90% of my comms on VHF its car-car or repeaters. Car-car operations are normally in front of or behind the user. May be ideal for that situation. If I can get an antenna on a vehicle vs a portable in the cup holder it may be a sell for a few co workers as well.
I didn't know if it is the same antenna that the OP found, since it says "new RFMAX Public Safety collection", but I thought that it was worth posting.
Sorry, I just re-read the original post. The OP said that he found one, not had one. At least it looks like there is no lead time on this one.
Sorry, I just re-read the original post. The OP said that he found one, not had one. At least it looks like there is no lead time on this one.
mmckenna
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I'd like to know more about "RFMAX". Seems like a house brand for Arcadian, which makes me think it's a rebadged Tram/Browning or some other Cheap Chinese Antenna.
