You will love the Wouxon, it's a fine radio. The UV5R is really deaf and dumb, not a good radio which you will learn after you start playing with the Wouxon. The "J Pole" antenna is a fair to good antenna. It's radiation pattern is very horizontal with little energy lost to vertical radiation, which is good, however it has no "gain" to it and so it does suffer in that department. I use a Browning BR-173 5/8 over 5/8 mobile antenna w/5.5db gain on my truck and on my base radio. I have a tram NMO ground plane base adaptor on a pole mounted at 30ft above ground level, there are better antennas but I'm real Cheap. It's an amazing antenna and I am very pleased with it. The Antron 99 is one of the finest antennas made for CB radio. I ran one for years. I had the ground plane kit which improved it's performance dramatically. I also ran SSB consistently. Haven't been on CB in years, but I still have my mobile sitting in it's box. I should dig it out and set it up, I miss those days. I enjoyed your video thanks for posting. Dan-WRFG362/K6DNK
Definitely a plan in the future. I don’t have the room for a mobile. Well, at the time. I already had a new cb radio in there. Since this video I have taken out the cb equipment and looking to put in a 50W mobile. This pretty much did what I needed it to do at the time.
You will love the Wouxon, it's a fine radio. The UV5R is really deaf and dumb, not a good radio which you will learn after you start playing with the Wouxon. The "J Pole" antenna is a fair to good antenna. It's radiation pattern is very horizontal with little energy lost to vertical radiation, which is good, however it has no "gain" to it and so it does suffer in that department. I use a Browning BR-173 5/8 over 5/8 mobile antenna w/5.5db gain on my truck and on my base radio. I have a tram NMO ground plane base adaptor on a pole mounted at 30ft above ground level, there are better antennas but I'm real Cheap. It's an amazing antenna and I am very pleased with it. The Antron 99 is one of the finest antennas made for CB radio. I ran one for years. I had the ground plane kit which improved it's performance dramatically. I also ran SSB consistently. Haven't been on CB in years, but I still have my mobile sitting in it's box. I should dig it out and set it up, I miss those days. I enjoyed your video thanks for posting. Dan-WRFG362/K6DNK
Why didn't you just get a 50w GMRS radio and be done. Use the mobile in your car. The 50w radios are mobile too.
Definitely a plan in the future. I don’t have the room for a mobile. Well, at the time. I already had a new cb radio in there. Since this video I have taken out the cb equipment and looking to put in a 50W mobile. This pretty much did what I needed it to do at the time.