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Two sector antennas on the sides of my truck?
Ok, now that I have the 1 watt amp, and it's impressive, I really want to figure out the antenna array for my truck.
I was gonna run an OMNI, but I can't get anything better than a 7 dB omni, without going to a big 16" fiberglass rod. And I don't think I want that on the roof of my lifted suburban, a little too obvious.
So what I want to do is mount 2 sector antennas into the rear corners, Build some fiberglass panels to hide them, I'm pretty sure I can make it relatively decent looking, and nobody will know what they are. This way, I could use two 20 dB antennas that have 180 degree patterns, one on each side.
I'll use a signal combiner from hyperlink, says its only got a .4 dB loss.
Problem is, I can't find sector antennas for less than $180-300$ each. And I don't know why! Anyone know of a better idea or source? ( hyperlink and fab-corp are both expensive) I could run the flat patch antennas, but they seem to have very narrow beam patterns and that would hurt the purpose of the rig.
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Does anyone know how well a pair of omni antennas would work? Would the signals interfere? Do they have to be perfectly vertical to work good?
I want a solution that I can hide. If it comes down to a 40" whip antenna on each side of my truck, so be it. But I'd like to bury the antennas into a panel of some kind.
Basically, if anyone has any ideas, please post them here.
Thanks!
Dave
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