A great antenna if you're willing to engineer your own tweeks to make it what they say it is
It's a great 2 meter antenna if you take a lot of precautions while assembling it.
Like teflon tape at the threaded joints then buy a can of white seal flex and liberally coat all joints and even top of support tube.
After assembly has dried you still need to remove allen screw that holds the coax connector at the base and 100% silicon the connection areas, use your finger to butter it all up but keep in mind to keep it thin so when it dries you can insert it back inside and retighten allen screw.
I am on my third 1481, first one filled up with water, they say a weep hole is there but it is not, they lie
The second one i did all the afore mentioned stuff and then while antenna connector was drying the silicon i drilled my own weep hole thru both the base and base pipe. and i lost it in the hurrican, it snapped at the base under 60 mph winds, so 90 mph is another story you can believe. So now I have my third and after doing everything mentioned again I now have a great working High gain antenna. Now i do have the thing about 52 feet in the air at the tip. getting out to repeters and others at 100 miles is not hard.
75 miles is average with lower power
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