Originally posted by mcarter
Thanks, the day I changed antennas was within hours of tests with no weather change. The test showed an improvement with the Magnadyne. The King OmniPro is advertised at 50-60 miles, while the Magnadyne, rated at 35 is closer to 25 I think. |
Don't go by "distance", look at the published gain for the antenna. In VHF/UHF bands a gain of 6 or 7 is as about as good as you can get in an omni. You can get higher gains, but really only with a very large directional antenna (which is really what the batwing is).
Many antenna sellers don't publish gain information, in which case, I would just look elsewhere. The other issue with many so-called omni antennas is that they aren't really omni-directional, but have high and low gain lobes. I've never seen an antenna seller publish the antenna gain plot, maybe because most consumers wouldn't know what they're looking at anyway.