Best Mobile Antenna for Ham, GMRS and MURS Radios | Comet CA2x4SR Antenna Review
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- If you need a mobile antenna to increase your range when traveling with ham, GMRS or MURS radios, you need to check out the Comet CA2x4SR antenna. This antenna is awesome!
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This is the kind of antenna review I like, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. I have this same antenna and it does a great job. I have it on the top of my 4 door Ford F250 16 inches away from my Stryker A10 antenna, both are great antennas. I have 4 antennas on my truck roof. Ham, GRMS, Citizen Band and Police scanner. All work great!
I have this antenna on all my mobile installations. I have both Amatuer and GMRS liscence. This is a great antenna as shown in the video. I have traveled most of the country with it and it works great on all the bands and all conditions. Plus the fold down hinge works great when I have to park in the airport garage.
I also have the CA2x4SR, one of the best mobile multi-band antenna I've came across. I searched forever for some sort of spring to use as I have it on my Jeep. Did not know about the CA-SPR, that is awesome, just ordered one. Much thanks for video.
Glad to help!
Outstanding video and found my solution to HOA restrictions in my area.
Thanks for watching! I think it will work well for you!
It's called a Comet Search & Rescue. It's been around a longtime. The one on my SUV is over 15 years old.
It’s a fantastic antenna. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the review and tests. Someone else tested the comet on 220 and it got a good SWR but when they transmitted to a repeater the SWR went up significantly.
Hello, I just ordered one of these antennas & magnetic mounts for my Jeep Cherokee, I love Comet Antennas. I run them on my base station for GMRS & actually didn't know they made one for your vehicle thanks for the video from WRPZ907 ORANGEBURG SC
Excellent antenna! Thanks for the test!
Great antenna, have had it for almost 7 years. Works great on a fender mount and can work satelittes too.
Haven’t tried satellites yet. Need to do that!
Thanks Kevin for the useful information
Thanks for watching!
I prefer the Comet SBB 5 with NMO mount on a 5" mag mount. It's a solid single piece element that's tough and very capable throughout the frequency ranges you mentioned. When I lived and worked in the city I had to park in parking garages. I found the SBB-1 perfect for that. I prefer single piece elements on my mobile antennas. They work, fewer parts to adjust, and nothing breaks or falls out or off.
Nice Antenna! For radios, having a good Antenna is very important!
It sure is!
Great review! Very wide banded and man you have lots of radios!
I've used this antenna for about 10 years now... And is hands down my favorite... Got one on my man shed, the car, and one I use when camping (base camp antenna on push up)... Anyways, just seeing what others think about it lol
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Hey, pretty good review! This is a nice antenna. I'll add one to my CSB790a. Not quite as much gain if your on flat ground on 2m, but very nice. I'm sure it will make sense for a ton of folks.
Solid review and can see it's potential across multiple radio bands. For my use as a traveling RV'er, I use the short Comet B-10 antenna for simplex (and for everyday repeater use while at home in Phoenix, AZ) which is a great choice because of it's small 12" height (won't blow over or smack anything, and fits in the garage). While at camp, I like the Diamond NR770HNMO for dual-band Ham use. Now, this Comet (alphabet soup name antenna lol) seems to do really well into the GMRS range (I'm Ham and GMRS licensed, so that is very useful). Thanks for the review and I'll see if I need to start using this antenna while camping with Ham and GMRS family/friends. Cheers! Pete in Arizona - KI7LIL / WRXY843
That’s funny you said cookie sheet. I do the same with my same antenna and mag mount.
Very flexible on the frequencies.
I'm running this antenna, NMO mount on a Comet mag mount, on my Toyota Tacoma. I did add the spring option. Works just fine. Oh, by the way, it has left marks on the roof...
KK7GXQ
Thank you.. i love mine
Great to hear!
I have been using this antenna for 10+ years on both a Comet & Diamond trunk lip mount. I have as number of mobile antennas, and here’s what I say about this one: I have antennas that work better on the ham bands but are average outside the bands. This one is good for the ham bands and great as a scanner antenna. No need to use anything else!
Great video. I'm a fairly new ham/GMRS. I have a tower for GMRS/repeater that I built that goes out great several miles and sounds very clear, but I can't seem to call back in. I suspect I either need a taller tower or better mobile antenna or perhaps both. How are you rigging this antenna for GMRS? Did you have to cut a custom length for the GMRS channels or do they sell a separate length for this? I like the versatility of this antenna and the high gain for GMRS is what I am after as I suspect that will allow me to connect back to my tower better. All I'm getting is the roger beep when I call in and I've tried multiple HT and even a 25 watt mobile base so I'm convinced it's not a power issue but an antenna issue but I'm open to ideas. I looked it up and it's claiming 6db on the 430 but does this hold into the GMRS frequencies as well in 467.xxx etc. I'm using moblie antennas right now that claim a 2.5 to 3.0 gain that I got of amz. Thank you
What antenna do you recommend for my 10 meter Ham Radio, for both mobile use, and what about a base antenna recommendation?
Two paws up it passed the sniff test! 😊
Ellie and Tiller agree!
What patch cable are you using for SMA to PL259 to connect your HTs to the SWR meter?
all over my head, but I know who to call when I want my CB radio installed in the truck !
That’s a big 10-4 good buddy!
@@KempOutside see, now i understand THAT. 10-10 on the side!
how is that antenna on GMRS Repeaters and 2 m repeaters
I have the same antenna in a NMO mount. same great tune. I use GMRS/MURS and 2meter/70 Cm on it. works super. takes 50 watts GMRS no problem. even have a B-tech UHF amp. 30 to 40 watts and works great. I use with the UV-5G I have. smaller one not the plus. that one has SMA F on HT. only UV-5 type like that. I get super range GMRS and MURS on it. never tried 1.25 meters yet. I only have 1 HT that is tri band. never tried it on that antenna. 73's
Im new in this subject , what you recommend between this magnet base vs lip mount?
It depends on the application. I run a lip mount permanently because I have clearance issues on my van. But for those who want to be able to remove their antenna quickly, the mag mount is great.
I might give it a try with my Kenwood mobile gmrs radio. Thank you . WRPW422. 73
I think you will be pleased with it. Thanks for watching!
what's the height of the antenna
I have this antenna but don't use it much. Not that I don't want to. I have an aluminum body F150, and the aluminum is too thin on the roof to keep this antenna from tin canning the roof under a wind load like driving. I doubt this is a problem for steel bodies. If you don't mind taking the headliner out on the aluminum vehicles, the solution is to install a doubler. Or you can try a fender mount. But on my f150 the only fender mount I could find that bolts into structure not skin on the hood tilts this antenna too far forward and would create problems under a wind load. So I only use this antenna when I'm not driving. But it works great.
Check out the comet rs730 lip mount. It also front back and side to adjust...works great!
Thanks for the video! KI5VOY 73
Thanks for watching! 73 KB8WPD
Have you done any real talk tests yet to see how it sounds?
I have used it both simplex and with repeaters on 2m and 70cm ham bands. I’ve also used it with my GMRS and MURS handhelds for vehicle to vehicle coms. This gave us a big range increase over stock antennas inside the vehicles. It also gets use as my APRS antenna. My rate of reception by digipeaters doubled when I upgraded to this antenna from a Nagoya mag mount.
Do you have a Griffon?
Yes we do! Her name is Ellie.
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Cant find this in the uk unfortuanatly
Sad to hear that. Amazon won’t ship it?
@@KempOutside i would have to order one from the usa and that would be costly as we dont sell that antenna,i will have a look at something similar.
Nice video. Subbed. 73 from KJ4ALC
Thanks for the sub! 73 KB8WPD
Ok antenna but your mounting location is sub par with very poor performance to your left.
Works great on GMRS Simplex but WILL NOT WORK ON REPEATER CHANNELS
Is this true, why?
I haven’t had any trouble with this antenna either simplex or on repeaters. Are you sure you were in range or the radio was programmed correctly? Maybe the repeater you were trying to use was offline?
No that's absolutely untrue lol
@KempOutside I was on Simplex antenna was perfect SWR but on all my repeater channels SWR was sky high around a 3.5 SWR 🤷 so I contacted the company they sent me a 2nd antenna & it was the same way
@@BillyInvestigations It's something else in your setup. I get 1:1.01SWR on simplex
When the corrupt politicians shut off the cellphone towers I strongly recommend using the YAESU FT-60R handheld dual band radios. These have great performance and good reviews.
Yer tinfoil hat is on a little too tight
Whoa thinking too deep in to things man , not healthy
@@RE-ec7iz
Actually, what he suggests is not very far fetched at all. As far as the radio, I and members of my family have had several FT-60's. They all were okay at first but after a couple or three years of light to medium use, they seemed to deteriorate seriously on xmit and rcv, even when using new batteries. Yaesu had a great design, especially the bullet proof exterior but the circuitry seems to be made up of weak components.
@@grigorirasputin5020 your YAESU FT-60R radios might be damaged if you are installing the wrong type of AA batteries into them. The other problem happens when the rechargeable batteries stop holding proper charge.
@@RE-ec7iz are you thinking too deep wearing a seat belt in your vehicle while driving ?
Gmrs and frs ...mrs.vhf uhf....not hf
I wouldn't trust that meter.
what would you suggest using?
Meter gets great reviews by ham radio operators. Why would you not trust it?
You lost me after you said you already have one. Then why review what you know it can do?
That's what a review is 😂
Perhaps other people want to know what I know?