UHF Antennas

As to yuor 1st Q , It should not be a problem

As to 2nd Q no idea. If Bias boating have a store in Brisy check them out as I have found them cheap on a few things for the 4by.

Hi DiesAL
The antenna should be fine. The following link is excellent on the GME antennas and their uses
link text
The 9DB is excellent for desert and outback
The 6DB is a comprimise, desert and hilly country
The 3DB is excellent in high country
Ray

DA,

Put one of these on our Tojo, as it screws straight onto 4700 series base. From past experience knew they worked well. However after only 12-18 months the top section(of 9dB section) had broken off.

In all fairness, we have almost 200 clicks of dirt road to go to town, and the corrugations are often enough to rival the Cape. In a situation where most of work was on bitumen, go for it.

Try Prestige Communications.

Hooroo...

I have had that antenna previously and found it waved around alot due to the stainless steel rod being so thin, and when the extra section is added, is waves around everywhere and gets the shakes alot during highway and offroad use.. not sure how long before metal fatigue sets in.. I did like the fold down feature and was ideal when mounted on the gutter and the antenna needed to be folded down to get under something..
I bought the belkin 6/9db antenna from prestige comms in Perth, this is a similar design, but the stainless steel used is ALOT thicker. The coil is alot the same guage stainless steel, and when used in the 6db length its a very solid antenna that doesnt wave and wobble around at highway speeds or off road, with the extra section added, it does develop some wobble and waving doe to the weight of the extra section added.. it doesnt wave around anywhere near as bad as the GME one.
When I replace the Belkin antenna, I will buy a solid 9db fibre glass antenna on a heavey duty spring base. This ensures the antenna goes well above the hight of the car to inprove tx/rx performance as UHF is line-of-sight technology due to the freq range in use and modulation used (FM) and the car body acts as a large metal shield which effects the range of the signal behind the car.. This is the same for ground-plane dependant and independant antenna's. Graound-plane independant antennas are the ones to go for.
hope this helps
regards
Bryan

Hi DiesAL,
I never had any problems with tx/rx performance with the GME antenna (they are very good antenna's), and from memory the Belkin antenna was approx the same price.

regards
Bryan

DiesAL,
My UHF antenna is not the Belkin (sorry thats another anetenna I realised as I put it on for a fishing trip)..
The UHF antenna is Benelec, model 02629. All other previous blurb is correct, was just wrong brand..

If you want to see the antenna on the car to see what it looks like, email me at ccie3106@iinet.net.au and I will email back my personal web site url.

sorry for any confusion
regards
Bryan