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The advertising claiming the 5/8 has db's of gain over other antennas is misleading or downright lies depending on how dumb the manufacturer is,

They use data from almost a century ago gleaned from ground mounted antennas over massive perfect groundplanes as a referance to BS you,

when you put them above real earth on poles with few radials that all goes out the window,
at the same tip height the 5/8 has a little less low angle gain than a dipole,

most of the difference seen in cb vertical antenna comparisons comes from the mast & coax radiating because folk don't install them correctly,

not because one antennas is way better than another similar length antenna as the cb antenna makers would have you believe.

[QUOTE="bob85, post: 723942, member: 18"] The advertising claiming the 5/8 has db's of gain over other antennas is misleading or downright lies depending on how dumb the manufacturer is, They use data from almost a century ago gleaned from ground mounted antennas over massive perfect groundplanes as a referance to BS you, when you put them above real earth on poles with few radials that all goes out the window, at the same tip height the 5/8 has a little less low angle gain than a dipole, most of the difference seen in cb vertical antenna comparisons comes from the mast & coax radiating because folk don't install them correctly, not because one antennas is way better than another similar length antenna as the cb antenna makers would have you believe. [/QUOTE]

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