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It’s working. Though I’m sure I would get a lot better results with a longer antenna. I wish they made one that could just be swapped out but I couldn’t find any. There are Alan screws holding the actual antenna rod in place. One would think you could just take the short one out and put a long one in and swap as necessary but I’m not seeing them sold individually.

I bought everything I need to build a node for gmrs. Or so I thought. Here’s the one I got: AURSINC MMDVM Hotspot Board (V1.5.2) + Antenna Support UHF VHF Support P25 DMR YSF DSTAR NXDN POCSAG for Raspberry Pi-Zero W, Pi 3 Doea anyone know if this will work or do I need a RF only?

Ok I understand. Thank you. However I did notice a huge difference after doing what I did. So maybe in the first attempt, I wasn’t making contact at all.

Forgive my limited understanding of what you stated. Are you saying that I would get better reception if the antenna or base was not touching the body of the vehicle at all?

Here’s what I have now. Not pretty but it’s working.

I was going nuclear with sanding probably while you were typing that lol. Seems to be a whole lot better now. Thank you. In the attached pic, is this the proper way to test continuity. Just learning all of this stuff. Thank you for your help.

Here is the way it was installed. I’m assuming I wasn’t grounding to the truck body. Seems like maybe I’m missing a washer? That silver washer with teeth, I don’t think that is gonna do the trick. Not sure what it’s for. I will sand and debur around the hole and use a washer this time. thanks

So I did the installation. My reception is terrible. It is super static. I had better reception with the mag mount and get better reception with a baofeng uv5g with stock antenna. Not sure if I did something wrong of something is defective.

Thank you! I’m out of reactions for the day so giving all my thanks verbally lol Seems like we could be allowed to have a few more reactions at our disposal…

Noted. Thank you much!

Awesome thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you very much! In the pic I’ve attached…obviously this end connects to the antenna, however it seems to be right angled and low profile. Also doesn’t look like it has screw threads. The antenna looks like it sits flush. If I drill a hole in the cab roof, factoring the headliner and insulation, will this actually make the connection or do I need some sort of adapter?

I think im going to buy this antenna: HYS Long Range Pretuned Low-Profile UHF 17.7inchs Whip NMO 462-467Mhz Antenna for Midland Motorola GMRS Cobra Icom 460-470Mhz Two Way Mobile Radio I’m not sure what coax cable to buy. The listing says it connects to a magnetic base that is sold separately. I don’t want a magnetic base Im just going to drill a hole in my cab and connect it that way. Does anyone know what I should buy? Preferably a cable that has the connections already in place. Also, does this need to be grounded to the truck with a separate ground wire? Thanks If it matters, I plan to use this with a radioddity DB40G and sometimes with a baofeng uv5g or uv9g

Ahh thanks For some reason I didn’t see this and can’t leave you a thanks but thanks