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I am curious why are you so sure the Wilson 1000/5000 are better performers? Wilson's own description states, "Wilson 5000 will outperform all other base loaded antennas available." and, "your Wilson 1000 is guaranteed to outperform any base loaded CB mobile antenna (except the...

I am perplexed as to why the Wilson 1000/5000 are so highly touted. They are base coiled antennas. I was looking at the less costly and shorter Hustler Truckers Antenna SCB rated for 1000 watts which is a center loaded coil antenna. Shouldn't it outperform the base loaded Wilsons? What am I...

That guarantee is interesting because Wilson says the same thing about their whip antenna also except its limited to a 15 day return. I am kind of new so I was wondering what you meant when you inferred that a CB can need a antenna rated more than 100 or 200 watts? Is that with modded 10...

Anyone here use the Wilson fiberglass flex antenna and does anyone know how does it compare with the wilson 1000 or 5000? Also is the top loading coil design of this fiberglass antenna a better design?

That is an interesting idea. Though the antenna is on the roof of my van so I thought that would have served as the ground plane. How would I ground the radio in the car? It is a Cobra 148gtl, coincidently the same as the pic in this forum topic header pic. I am powering it through the...

I have a Cobra CB in my car and am trying to match it to a Radio Shack magnetic mount center loaded antenna. I have a external SWR meter hooked up between the radio and antenna. The problem is when I transmit to get a reading and move my microphone around at the same time, the SWR reading...