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It's hard to find a super small wide range antenna for daily and of course have a much larger appropriate antenna for my MXT as well as a ghost antenna. But wanted a small one for the H3. 

So i have one of my H3's mounted in my truck and hooked up to the cheep Midland GMRS antenna that comes free with the/my MXT275. I mostly use it with my H3 just to monitor frequencies my Midland can't (LEO/EMS/FD) and was wondering if using this GMRS antenna of this low quality would be an issue for like 154.80000? Seem to pick up fine, of course better on 460 vs 150. 

 

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MXT GMRS antenna

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5 minutes ago, RIPPER238 said:

It's hard to find a super small wide range antenna for daily and of course have a much larger appropriate antenna for my MXT as well as a ghost antenna. But wanted a small one for the H3. 

So i have one of my H3's mounted in my truck and hooked up to the cheep Midland GMRS antenna that comes free with the/my MXT275. I mostly use it with my H3 just to monitor frequencies my Midland can't (LEO/EMS/FD) and was wondering if using this GMRS antenna of this low quality would be an issue for like 154.80000? Seem to pick up fine, of course better on 460 vs 150. 

 

H3

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MXT GMRS antenna

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It’s a single band UHF antenna so I wouldn’t expect good transmission from it. Without measuring the SWR it’s difficult to say. Maybe someone who has both an analyzer and that antenna would measure it. 
I tried using an MXTA26 for 2 meters and a friend six blocks away couldn’t hear me with 20 watts. 

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4 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

It’s a single band UHF antenna so I wouldn’t expect good transmission from it. Without measuring the SWR it’s difficult to say. Maybe someone who has both an analyzer and that antenna would measure it. 
I tried using an MXTA26 for 2 meters and a friend six blocks away couldn’t hear me with 20 watts. 

Thx. Yeah, i haven't tried transmitting, just receiving and there is some loss. I can try and test it with my SWR, but i'm sure it will fail on anything not UHF when transmitting. 

 

Which there was a super small quality 140-160 MHz/435-465 MHz antenna. 

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5 minutes ago, RIPPER238 said:

Which there was a super small quality 140-160 MHz/435-465 MHz antenna.

Don't know if it is small enough but this is what I use.

I've seen some people on this site complain about this antenna but it has been working great for me.

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11 minutes ago, WRXB215 said:

Don't know if it is small enough but this is what I use.

I've seen some people on this site complain about this antenna but it has been working great for me.

Thx. A little too big for a daily. I only have a few inches to spare when parking in my garage. ~Ghost antenna height is ideal, found one too but not well rated. 

 

Wish i could just mount the antenna the H3 comes with on a mount. 

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43 minutes ago, WRXB215 said:

Don't know if it is small enough but this is what I use.

I've seen some people on this site complain about this antenna but it has been working great for me.

Yep, that is what I have on my car's roof with my TD-H3 connected and a handset mich plugged in as my tiny makeshift mobile unit. It actually works well.

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It should be fine for rx    But why. In reality your HT probably rx’s the same with or with out an external antenna. 

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1 hour ago, Socalgmrs said:

It should be fine for rx    But why. In reality your HT probably rx’s the same with or with out an external antenna. 

Yeah, when i used it with the proper full range antenna it worked well inside where i have it mounted surprisingly. But thought it may be better with external and seems about equil.

So i guess now it's just so i dont have some big antenna blocking my windshield view. lol 

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