UHF Antenenna

Hmmm and it looks like my spelling wasn't too good there.

Because you are looking at a bull bar mounted antenna, I would suggest you look at the GME brand on Prestige's Web site.

The RFI Explorist is listed as being 900mm long. This may be a bit short for a bull bar mounted antenna. You need to get the top of the aerial above the roof line of your vehicle for optimum performance.

Although a little more expensive the GME 4705 4.5db 1.2m or the 4706 2.1m 6db would be good choices.

The 4700 model range of aerials are all interchangable on the spring base, so you could have a shorter antenna for city use and a longer antenna for country use.

For hilly kind of country, the 4705 with it's 4.5db attenuation would probably be my first choice.

The longer 2.1 metre 6db antenna may give better performance in flat country.

That's my thoughts anyway.

I would go a good quality 6Db antenna on the gaurd, I hate antennas mounted on the bull bar because if you mudge into a tree or bushers you have a chance of damaging a antenna or of you run off the road, when away we quite often nudge into bushers or lut the bonnet under low branches to make it around corners and turning around.

Im sure if they made a uhf antenna 6 meters long and 10 inches thick they would sell like hot cakes.

I would not worry tomuch about changing antennas for differant terain as you may only gain a bit of performance.

What are you going to do stop every 15 minutes because the terain has changed and change the antenna?

It your money and if you fell better by having a big antenna mounted on the bull bar do it!

We use a GME 6Db out of the GME 6 / 9 Db kit mounted on the gaurd.

The GME antenna we use is also ground independent.

If you are after the best performance drill a hole in the middle of your roof and mount it there.....I didn't like the idea either.

Regards Richard

The best place for a uhf aerial is in the middle of the roof, almost everything else is a compromise. What do you want to use the uhf for ? If you just want to get from one end of a convoy to the other then the smallest cheapest will most probably do quite well. If you want the greatest range then you can pay a lot more dollars but only get a few km extra. In my opinion it's not worth paying heaps more for just a few km. I don't like eating other peoples dust so keep a few km back when travelling in a group. My aerial is the smallest 'rubber ducky' you can get and I get about 10 km range no trouble at all. In hills and mountains everyone is closed up considerably so short range coms is normal and the small aerial works well. Several of my friends have rather expensive aerials and they don't seem to get much more range then I do.

I got a RFI CD 900, from Prestige, and recon its bloody good..

Works everywhere I go, and works good

Cheers

Bucky