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  1. Obed

    DX Engineering experience

    I have ordered from them several times... never an issue. I have been very pleased with the quality of their products and the service I received.
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    Best mobile type antenna for 10 meters

    that is exactly my point, if you are going to say gain, you have to have a reference point for that to mean anything. On these types of issues you never see them say what they mean by gain... dBi, dBd, or dBgclug (garbage can lid under ground)...to say it has gain when you mean it simply is more...
  3. Obed

    Best mobile type antenna for 10 meters

    thank your for clearly relating efficiency to gain... though they are not the same thing at all, you made it clear that you define gain as having the least loss. you also related that the true gain of any antenna is by robbing power from one area and putting it into an area, thereby, gain in...
  4. Obed

    Best mobile type antenna for 10 meters

    gain over what? How does the antenna get that gain? Advertising is a license to lie. NO mobile omin-directional antenna provides any actual gain, unless you consider less loss than another as a gain.
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    Dipole Question

    since you mention roof mounting and wanting to match the roof profile, I am assuming you have deed or HOA restrictions. There is no magic length, but in truth some surprising configurations can work quite well. I have used a Z shape wire mounted 4" off the roof with TV cable stand offs and a...
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    Inverted V or Horizontal?

    The arrl antenna handbook has quite a bit of information on this. It is a great reference.