When you do a video on range, you must let everyone know what your distance is at each step otherwise your video has no point. Sorry but I was very unhappy hearing nothing about miles distance. Its like showing me a ruler with no lines.

For the next mobile antenna test you might want to put a mileage counter in the video. 73 WD9ABG

It's really frustrating to watch the video and not have distances marked. That's why I followed the steps shown in the video and redid them on google earth. The Mag Mount Antenna: The last call with an answer and good signal (time 7:35) was made 3.15 miles from the starting point (5.1 km). The last call (no communication) was made at 3.37 miles (only 0.34 miles from the last viable call) - in fact it appears that this last call was made at a lower location on the highway, if he had followed the road a little further ahead there would be several higher locations and maybe he would get a viable signal). Following the steps on Gooole earth, it was possible to see that the places where the signal was weakest were actually in the lowest positions on the ground. It is also possible to note that there were no significant relief formations between the starting location and the last location with a good signal, although there was a natural variation in relief between the positions. The starting point is at an altitude of 248m, the first stop is at 283 meters, the first call with weak signal (driving at the lower place of the road) is at 269 meters, and soon after, a good signal again, at the top of the hill at 283 meters (timestamp 6:05). One of the intermediate call (timestamp 6:38) with a good signal is at an altitude of around 292 meters. In the end we had a maximum distance with a good signal up to 3.15 miles (5.1 km). The rubber ducky antenna: The last communication with a good signal made with the HT's rubber antenna was made at 0.94 miles (1.51 KM) at 279 meters altitude (the base is at 248 meters). The attempt to communicate with the rubber antenna, poor and unfeasible signal, was made 1.29 miles (2.08 km) from the base at an altitude of 282 meters (yes, interestingly higher than the base but at 1.29 miles from distance) All markings are in a straight line. 73!!

They do a range test and don't even show the milage...

I have a couple dual band antennas that size that work good to be so little. My work van has a 62” diamond sg7900 that so far seems to be the meanest antenna I’ve used in a mobile application. Only prob is it’s long and on top of a 7 foot tall van. Hits a lot of things. I think I’m going to try to find a bigger one and build a motorized mount to lay it over for drive thru’s, etc. maybe

I have this on my patrol vehicle a Ford utility(explorer)interceptor. I used it with my 878 for about 2 years. I live approximately 25 miles from the VHF repeater. It transmitted well if I was in a good spot and still. But received very well even moving. I now have a 578 on it and works well transmit and receive.

Hello, do I need to ground this Antenna?

great job 73

Hi and thanks for the very informative video. Can you tell me please how far in miles did you eventually get between the two radios? thanx.

What was the total amount of distance/miles did you go with the antenna to get a clear signal excluding being on the hill?

Distance and elevation changes would paint a clearer picture

So following along with google maps and using Pythagorean theorem about triangles. I think you were roughly 3.675 miles from Rule Rd, (were I think the antenna reached the limit of its range) to your office in Smithville. That to me seems underwhelming. I would have hoped you could get that out of the stock antenna and closer to 5.5 to 6 miles with the antenna. Is this normal for any mobile antenna. I’m sorry to make it seem like I’m throwing your product under the bus. I just thought mobile antennas would have done a bit better. Sorry for been noob questions and thank you in advance for your time.

elaborate on how great in term of gaining extra feet or miles of reception when compare to the stock antenna.

What about the driven distance and elevation ?

So, what was the range in distance?

The guy at the base needs to learn how to give a proper signal report

Ok so what was the range? You show a map but it meant nothing?

To be fair, a piece of wet string performs better than the stock antenna. Does anybody NOT just trash it the second they open the box ? What would have been more meaningful would have been to compare the mag mount to a popular 3rd party antenna, like the Signal Stick or a Nagoya which themselves WAY outperform the stock antenna.

Seemed like some crap performance to me. I get that kind of range with a Nagoya 771.

Were you guys on DMR simplex or FM simplex..? de W5DMG

Do you not need to swr the antenna to the radio

Huh? Why wouldn't you say the distance? 🤦‍♂️

lower sq

I’d avoid the word wimpy if I was you.

So you just did a video, showing how far we could transmit with car antenna. But you never mentioned even 1 time, how far you were on either. That's a waste of time for anyone watching.

Must have hand free communication in New York. Bad form to show the one hand driving. Like the results, but safety first.