I have to agree with you sir on what I'm seeing and I'm just applying common sense with past expieriance with experimenting with many differant antennas for 30+ years so my final decision about the gr-45 is just marketing hype selling crap that just looks cool because it's differant.I've never used or seen one in person but they've been available it seems for 35+ years.
All I noticed from the pic is it seems to violate one of the rules of loading an antenna, the capacity hat appears to be too close to the coil.
I would expect less local vertical performance than a Whiskey still type mobile antenna.
If I had one of these I'd add 12"-18" between the coil & cap hat and remove a winding or two.
Seems a bit pricey for an oddly shaped mobile antenna, even if it does have almost 1/2 the amount of magic Antron9.9 gain
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Lightning Antennas GR45
- Thread starter Blackcat630
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I had one back in the 90's.
I remember testing it at the Belmar marina, comparing it with 102" fighting stick, a coil and and a Wilson 5000.
~ Equal to the 102"
Better then the Wilson 5000 or coil.
It smacked a tree and got recycled fairly quicky on my chevy van.
Not worth the $$$.
I remember testing it at the Belmar marina, comparing it with 102" fighting stick, a coil and and a Wilson 5000.
~ Equal to the 102"
Better then the Wilson 5000 or coil.
It smacked a tree and got recycled fairly quicky on my chevy van.
Not worth the $$$.