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Originally Posted by Mr. Ham
You have your antenna mounted too low on the vehicle..
The maximum amount of current is at the base of the antenna and the tip of the antenna has the least.
When you mount the antenna low - most of the signal ends up underneath the vehicle.
A better suggestion would have been to mount the antenna in the middle of the roof and build a tip up antenna mount. Drive to where you are going and then tip it up and operate...
Even if it was at the rear of the vehicle and high - it would talk several times better then where you have it.
I'm surprised that you aren't complaining about a high SWR ...
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I agree with you at least the coil should be in the clear but the motorized antenna pretty much will match any thing however the efficiency will be pretty poor. A screw driver antenna is pretty much magic any way they really should not work worth a hoot but they do.