Hello, I have a MXT275 radio and the Midland magnetic antenna mount in the center of the truck cab and an MXTA25 3db antenna and it was all working fine but I decided to reroute the cable and purchased an extension cable but when I fully plug in the cable to the radio I get nothing, when I pull it out just so the center pin is in the radio I can get NOAA stations and it seems fine, why is it not letting me fully secure the cable? Thanks for any help.
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The MXT275 is a tiny pud antenna that works on UHF only and barely at that. On VHF weather channels it would be similar to using a folded up paper clip as an antenna. When you only have the center pin of the coax attached that is using the shield of the coax from that point on as the antenna and that is apparently enough to receive VHF weather channels.
I would recommend dumping that worthless little pud antenna and use a 6" 1/4 wave whip or anything else. A 1/4 wave whip will survive much more abuse than the pud where it will fold over low to the vehicle and if you hit something solid the put will rip the mount right off the vehicle.
Would this happen to be on a Jeep?
I would recommend dumping that worthless little pud antenna and use a 6" 1/4 wave whip or anything else. A 1/4 wave whip will survive much more abuse than the pud where it will fold over low to the vehicle and if you hit something solid the put will rip the mount right off the vehicle.
Would this happen to be on a Jeep?
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