rtWhich anteena is better?

[TWO]

Ok I got a 04 dodge ram 1500 and I was wondering which anteena to get, a wilson 5000 or the predator 10k(what shaft size) I will probly mount it on the toolbox. let me know thanks 2

[treetall]

well if you can find a 10k, a 10k with a 27inch shaft. but hey my vote goes to a 102 inch whip mouted on a riser about level with your cab

[Twink]

i love my 1000, i assume the 5000 is a little better.

[treetall]

naw the 5000 can just handle more watts. but if your worried about how many watts it can handle you should be out of mag mount territory already. me and this tobacco field truck is gettin up. ill cya

[TWO]

well right now i am just using a cobra 29 ltd classic but i plan on getting a connex 3300hp tune up. so i am wanting to get a pretty good anteena. I had a wilson 5000 mag mount once and it kept flopping off the truck everytime id go thru the bank drive thru or a fast food drive thru. i live in ky so i dont know if the 102 wold be great cuz it wouldnt go under alot of the stuff here.. let me know..thanks 2

[Pro-Tech]

I have a F-250 and found that using a coil and whip antenna is more money and work. Plus you need a long shaft to get the coil over the cab, unless you put it in the center of the cab roof. Also here thieves love to steal expensive coil and whips. But for around thirty bucks you can get a top loaded Skip Shooter and install it out of the passenger side stake bed hole. The reason I say passenger side is because of the bank drive thrus and similar. Most of the time the drive thru only covers the drivers side and the passanger side is uncovered for antenna clearance. Also they are three to seven feet to fit any vehicle. They hold up to 7500 watts and tunable. In my job I have to test every new antenna that comes along and for years I have always come back to the top loaded fiberglass style for everyday use.

Now I just recently purchased Skip Shooter Antenna Company becuase of my experience with all the other styles of antennas and found thier design the best quality. With that said you might think I'm trying to make a sale but I'm just tying to help you talk the best with little money for everyday talking. Skip Shooter has had the same distributors and dealers for over forty years now so you not buying one isn't going to bankrupt us. Similar products would be the Wilson Silver Load and Firestix II. When our patnent was up 1995 they jumped on the band wagon too.

But experience is your best teacher and I wanted to let you know that these antennas will out perform a coil and whip on a pick up. The only way to get the same results with a coil and whip would be to drill a hole in the middle of the cab with a very short or no shaft.

We back out reading the mail.

[the_junkie]

I have a F-250 and found that using a coil and whip antenna is more money and work. Plus you need a long shaft to get the coil over the cab, unless you put it in the center of the cab roof. Also here thieves love to steal expensive coil and whips. But for around thirty bucks you can get a top loaded Skip Shooter and install it out of the passenger side stake bed hole. The reason I say passenger side is because of the bank drive thrus and similar. Most of the time the drive thru only covers the drivers side and the passanger side is uncovered for antenna clearance. Also they are three to seven feet to fit any vehicle. They hold up to 7500 watts and tunable. In my job I have to test every new antenna that comes along and for years I have always come back to the top loaded fiberglass style for everyday use.

Now I just recently purchased Skip Shooter Antenna Company becuase of my experience with all the other styles of antennas and found thier design the best quality. With that said you might think I'm trying to make a sale but I'm just tying to help you talk the best with little money for everyday talking. Skip Shooter has had the same distributors and dealers for over forty years now so you not buying one isn't going to bankrupt us. Similar products would be the Wilson Silver Load and Firestix II. When our patnent was up 1995 they jumped on the band wagon too.

But experience is your best teacher and I wanted to let you know that these antennas will out perform a coil and whip on a pick up. The only way to get the same results with a coil and whip would be to drill a hole in the middle of the cab with a very short or no shaft.

We back out reading the mail.

So the skipshooter will outperform my 55 antenna on my cab???

[Pro-Tech]

Is your 55 coming out of the center of your cab roof? And are you talking big truck or pick up? If you are talking about a pickup, as long as the coil is above the cab and does best coming out of the center. A coil and whip works best with a metal ground plane so that's why I say the center for a flat metal surface. Most big trucks have a all fiberglass body so the best bang for the buck is going top loaded. Last November at our shoot out here my Skip Shooter would stomp all the ducks showing up to the staging area with thier coil and whips mounted behind the cab. Now I did take off my everyday driver five foot and used a seven footer to make sure my coil was a lot higher than normal. On my F-250 seven footers are too tall for some of the places I go in downtown Memphis.

[Corn_Bread]

what part of ky ya live in?? Im in WV

[TWO]

what part of ky ya live in?? Im in WV

I live just right outside of prestonsburg and pikeville. I am bout hr in a half from huntington mall. so i should get a predator 10k or wilson 5000, get a skip shooter? let me know. thanks

[jessejamesdallas]

what part of ky ya live in?? Im in WV

I live just right outside of prestonsburg and pikeville. I am bout hr in a half from huntington mall. so i should get a predator 10k or wilson 5000, get a skip shooter? let me know. thanks

IMO...Get a 27" shaft, Single Coil Predator 10K...BUT! I highly doubt your going to be able to find one, since they have not been any made since back before Christmas, and looks like there will not be anymore made period. Cowtown Antenna's (Predator 10K Company) is shut-down, closed, and no more are in the works...

You may want to also check out "Fatboy Antenna's"...Give them a "Google"

[BONEHEAD]

The higher the antenna is off the ground is the BEST..Period...

[Texas Mobil 219]

My vote is for a 108 from MFJ.

What i would like to know is. Were did he find a Preditor. Because i haven't found one and been looking.

[White Lightning]

My vote is for a 102' SS whip you just cannot beat the old school 102s