Review on 📶 High-Performance TRAM 703-HC Center Load CB Antenna Kit: Unmatched Signal Quality and Range by David Bar

Purchased for Uniden 980 SSB CB radio. Seems to be working fine at the moment but there are no more people on the CB tape! On reflection I bought a Midland McKinley and found that my sunroof was interfering with the expected ground plane of those magnetic mount antennas. I got around this by installing a second ground wire on the radio's case and connecting the other end of the ground wire to vehicle ground. I cut the ground wire about 15-20 feet, or enough to get to the battery by exiting through the side door and around the car for earlier troubleshooting. I then took the extra ground wire/wire, wrapped it around a small 6" round spool and secured with a zip tie. Essentially, this results in creating an RF "receiver" and probably an unintended extra ground plane, which probably solves my ground plane or sunroof problem. A zippered cable reel was rolled up next to the floor of the car and hidden behind the floor's center console. ADVANTAGES 1) Adjustable/adjustable antenna length and adjustment required when connecting to CB radio. 2) Cable length seems to be sufficient. 3) stranded instead of solid? See note from 06/15/2018 about instability and two-star drop! Additional note and possible solution noted on 06/27/2018; continue in the second paragraph here. 1.5-2.3 and after about two months of use while recalibrating and increasing the SWR to 2.5-3.0 and keeping the SWR at just 1.0 keeping the mic outside the window, with the index finger pressed on the buttocks. I should have stopped there, but after pulling my finger out of my butt and tucking away the mic, the SWR was now consistently at 3.0. Removed and installed LMR400 cables, thought I broke the cables, SWR because messy, slightly better. As the SWR is still unstable I bought an older Midland 18-2442 and fitted it and now for the first time achieved the perfect SWR of 1.0 almost immediately! A NOTICE. The Midland 18-2442 looks almost identical, with two hex head screws and the only obvious difference: a solid core RG-58U cable instead of a stranded RG-58U tram cable. Presumably a flexible/stranded core should be better, but my experience says a solid core is better. (It's interesting to note that the Midland cables say "RG-58AU Tram-Max"!) 2018-06-27 seems to have disproved my fluctuating or erratic SWR and made notes in the second paragraph about a randomly obvious solution or hack Review. I've increased a star as this antenna should now perform very similarly to the Midland 12-2442, but I don't have time to test it further.