Review on 📡 PCTEL A/S APR153 On-Glass Open Coil Antenna - Black: 150-174MHz High-Performance Solution by Corey Krull

The instructions are poor, important installation details are missing, e.g. B. what's in front? what do you do with a cheap base plate? Which brings me to my next point: the junction box requires a cheap "ground" plate that needs to be plugged into metal somewhere, it looks damn cheap for a high quality antenna, it looks awful with an exposed/braided cable depends on it. Despite being much longer, the TRAM glass post has a small "radius" and doesn't feel cheap or a fraction of the price. If you then try to tune this antenna in the 151.4-151.8MHz range then forget it, the short circuit impedance you will get is around 60 ohms. not good. TRAM is much better and easier to set up, partly because it's 8 inches longer (which is why I tried that option). BTW I tried it in two different setups and the best return loss I got was under -20dB. . This is the bare minimum if you expect decent performance. In contrast, the return loss for the TRAM glass mount was -32 dB. Disappointing, so I cannot recommend this antenna.