Window mount

[cbeam2]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a window mount antenna to use HT in car?

[BoxCar]

Laird

[wayoverthere]

There is a Nagoya version out there with sma connectors: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124178030161 (not recommended per @Lscott 's experience with this type)

Rugged Radios ses one with a nmo base, but will likely need a no ground plane antenna: https://www.ruggedradios.com/products/suction-cup-antenna-mount

American radio supply has a couple others too: https://www.americanradiosupply.com/window-glass-mounts/

Edited 6 hours ago by wayoverthere
edit with other's experience

[Lscott]

59 minutes ago, wayoverthere said:

There is a Nagoya version out there with sma connectors: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124178030161

I would not recommend that one. I have something similar, but with a BNC connector on the end.  There is no ground plane resulting in a bad SWR match. The crappy coax shield is used as the other half of the dipole.

[wayoverthere]

22 minutes ago, Lscott said:

I would not recommend that one. I have something similar, but with a BNC connector on the end.  There is no ground plane resulting in a bad SWR match. The crappy coax shield is used as the other half of the dipole.

Noted...I'll add that to my other post. I think if I were going this route, it'd probably be the rugged for the ability to use a no ground antenna.

[nokones]

I have very good luck with a Larsen Glass-Mount antenna. My VSWR on 462 megs is about 1.2:1 and 1.6:1 on 467 megs.

https://www.arcantenna.com/products/pulse-larsen-kg450udpl-glass-mounted-whip-antenna

[nokones]

2 hours ago, BoxCar said:

Laird

Laird does not have a Glass-Mount antenna

[nokones]

4 hours ago, nokones said:

Laird does not have a Glass-Mount antenna

They did have them back in the ASP days when they were ASP. They were cellular look-likes and they had them in the VHF, UHF, and of course the 800 bands. Those were the days when cellular was only 800 Megs.