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Styer
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 - 4:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i have a wilson 5000 trucker series antenna mounted in the center of my pickup bed...i was wondering if anyone has tried a stargun "mobile beam" antenna...do you benefit from them? and if so how? would i be better off just using my wilson?
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Hotwire
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Post Number: 288
Registered: 1-2005


Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 9:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A beam on the car! Dont fall for that. A mobile beam is ridiculous unless you just plan to be parked while you talk. America is the land of opertunity. The Stargun is a prime example of a rip off. Keep your wILSON AND YOUR LUMP OF CASH IN YOUR POCKET MAN!!!! Try a 102 in ss whip if your lookin for better performance. I just do not see how the stagun would work better than any other antenna? Even a coat hanger. I would use a thousand metal twisty ties before I laid out big cash on a Stargun
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Styer
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Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 3:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

what flat/horiz. mobile antennas would yall suggest? do i run the wilson verticle,and the horiz. on seperate coaxes and just use an antenna selector?
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Hotwire
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Post Number: 294
Registered: 1-2005


Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 8:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Why do you want a horizontal on your vehicle? You will do fine with 1 vertical antenna like the Wilson. Better yet try a 102 inch whip!
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Road_warrior
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Post Number: 476
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 2:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Save your money, don't buy a beam antenna
for your vehicle./ You will be disappointed./
They are worthless when car is moving./
Signal Engineering makes a mobile antenna
that picks up verticle and horz signals
just on the recieve end./ It is funny
looking though...LOL.../ But, i would
suggest just to keep using the Wilson as
they are good antennas./ I prefer a Wilson
on the roof of a vehicle, compared to a
102" whip on the bumper.

JIM/ PA/ CEF 375
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Patzerozero
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Post Number: 688
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 11:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hmmmm, seeing as a large beam on my house would pass over my neighbors property as it turned, 1 on my mobile is a better idea. of course it can't be used while driving, but while parked on the beach...2 predators on my roof, the 2nd mounted forward as a director appear to work better then mounted rearward as a reflector, but haven't really gone crazy with it yet.
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Panda_bear
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Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 8:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

being from jackson,ms and knowing troy ive tried and seen and heard most of his antenas and the do work and work well.look at it like this to he offers a lifetime warranty if it breaks under normal using conditions he will fix it for nada if you break it its reasonable to have the broke part replaced try somthin like that with another antenna maker.......you get what u pay for
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Wolverine
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Post Number: 361
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Stargun antennas are junk. You would be better off, and would get more gain running 2 antennas, 1 hot,and 1 reflector.
Wolverine.

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