GMRS GHOST ANTENNA: I Compare The Midland MXTA25 Ghost Antenna To Two Popular GMRS Mobile Antennas

foreign. I will achieve three things. to. I will address the proclamation made by many experts online that this

antenna

is nothing more than garbage and is nothing more than a fancy dummy load. two. I will

compare

the performance of this

antenna

with two other very

popular

GMR

mobile

antennas

. and three: I won't try to impress you like many other YouTubers would by using fancy technical jargon or big words. Instead, I will use common language that is easy for the average man or woman to understand. The reason I'm making this video is because there are a lot of people online.

Experts continue to spread ugly and scandalous rumors about so-called

ghost

antennas

like this one, and they don't just mean the Midland

ghost

antenna, they mean all ghost antennas, many of these experts proclaim while enjoying their self-glorified puddles. of experience that proclaims that a phantom antenna is nothing more than a fictitious load. A dummy load for those of you who are not radio experts is what you use to test the power output of a radio. It is basically a heat sink that plugs into your radio and absorbs all the RF electricity coming out of a radio without transmitting those RF electricity into the air more than a few feet using a dummy load.

It allows you to take a good measurement of the power coming out of a radio without disturbing anyone who may be listening on the same frequency because a dummy load doesn't transmit RF electricity very well, if anything, a dummy load is basically an antenna, So when an expert

compare

s a phantom antenna to a dummy load, what he is saying is that a phantom antenna is not a dummy load. It's really an antenna and you can't transmit far if you're using one so to see if this is true or if those experts are full of stuff I'll compare this ghost antenna to overseas hey I'll compare this ghost antenna to two

mobile

gmrs

antennas very

popular

.

The first is the king of

gmrs

mobile antennas, the gmrs Nagoya UT 72g mobile antenna. Experts often recommend Nagoya antennas as the best antennas you can buy and the gmrs Midland mxta 26 mobile antenna, which is the same antenna I use on my Jeep. The Midland mxta 25 phantom antenna is a three DB gain antenna, it is very small, measuring just under four inches tall and very sturdy, making it perfect for attaching to a Jeep or landing machine because it has no to worry about The bushes or the roof of the McDonald's drive-thru ripped it off and this is the antenna that many experts claim does not work or works very poorly, it is no better than a dummy load.

Now, one very important thing we must remember about this antenna or any other one. The phantom antenna, not just the Midland phantom antenna, is because a phantom antenna is very small if you mount this antenna in a poor location where parts of the vehicle block the RF electricity, where a taller antenna could reach above what that is blocking those RF electricity. It's not going to work, so what I'm saying is always mount your antennas in a good spot on your vehicle, free of obstructions. The dmxta phantom antenna costs $49. Affiliate link below as mentioned above. I will compare the ghost antenna with two other antennas.

First the Midland mxta 26 antenna, the Midland MX ta-26 is a 6 DB gain antenna and this is the antenna I use on my Jeep and the mxta 26 antenna is $60 at the affiliate link below and I will also compare the phantom antenna with Nagoya ut-72g mobile gmrs antenna the Nagoya ut-72g is a 3 DBI gain antenna and let me point out that DBI is different from DB as measured by the two antennas above, it is a different way of measuring part of the electricals and I I don't know what three DBI translates to in DB and although I don't really care, I'm sure some expert will leave a 10 paragraph comment not only to tell us the answer but also to tell us how to do it. the calculation along with the full history of DB versus DBI as methods for measuring antennas and the Nagoya ut-72g is 35 dollars foreign affiliate link below these three antennas are gmrs antennas so they are pre-tuned for gmrs which means that You can use them right out of the box without needing to tune or cut them.

If you were to analyze these three antennas on a sophisticated antenna analyzer, as I have, you would find that the Nagoya and Midland antennas are pretty well tuned for the middle of the year. the GMRS frequency spectrum and both exhibit their best performance somewhere between the 462 and 467 gigahertz range. Oh, I'm sorry, it's been pointed out that I've been mispronouncing that word the right way to say it's not majigahertz. I feel like What a fool to say it wrong all this time the correct way to say it is not my gigahertz the correct way to say it is my hertz giggle so both antennas are fine tuned between 462 and 467 mi gigahertz which is perfect for gmrs though, When analyzing the phantom antenna, I find that it is best tuned at about 467 mi gigahertz, which is at the very high end of the GMRS range, and many experts often point to this as proof that a phantom antenna does not work on GMRS, but When they say this, what they are desperately trying to say, but are apparently unable to express, is that the antenna performs best at 467 mi gigahertz within an SWR of about 1.4 to 1 at that frequency, however, at the rest Of the GMRS range, the SWR is around 2 or 2.5 to 1, which is still perfectly acceptable and pretty good for normal people.

Let me take an extra moment to point out that the measurements I just mentioned were made on these specific antennas and due to the vagaries of manufacturing fracture techniques and poor quality. control, no two antennas are exactly the same and my measurements were also done with a good ground plane and in perfect conditions and never forget that in the real world how and where an antenna is mounted will greatly affect both the SWR and the performance of the antenna, so now let's focus our attention on how these three antennas actually perform in the real world, both in reception and transmission, compared to each other under identical conditions, almost like a scientific test.

I will first compare how well each of these antennas can receive a signal. and to do that I will use my SDR, which is what you are looking at right now, this will allow us to accurately see and measure the intensity of the RF electricity instead of just relying on the noise entry holes on the side of our heads so you can See the DB scale on the left which goes from negative 20 at the top, which would be a very strong signal, to negative 70 at the bottom, which would be a very weak signal, so the higher the signal, the stronger the RF electricity will be and below that we have.

You also have the RF electricity speedometer which will make it very easy to visualize with your eyes how strong the RF electricity is being received and just like when driving your car, the further to the right the needle goes, the more manly it is and To help me with this quasi-scientific test, I have my friend Chris at his house 10 miles away and in almost perfect line of sight from me, which means there are no hills, no trees, and no houses full of fat people between us. to block RF electricity. The only thing between Chris and me is his air and rainbow.

We will first test how well each of these three antennas can receive a weak signal for Chris to transmit from his walkie-talkie radio while looking at the signal strength on the screen for each different antenna. Chris will transmit on his walkie-talkie with the small walkie-talkie antenna and the SDR will receive the signals from him using each of the three different antennas and unfortunately Chris won't say any words when he transmits, instead he will be typing this. This way the signal will be flat, stable and easier to measure, and what you are seeing now is how well the Nagoya ut-72g is receiving Chris's signal from 10 miles away, as you can see the signals reach a maximum of around -64 or less 65 DB.

Next we will see how the Midland mxta 26 antenna works, the same antenna that I use in my Jeep we will see how well it captures Chris's signal and as you can see it reaches a peak of about -63 or less 64 DB, which is just one or two DB better than the Goya but not much different and finally the phantom antenna, the same antenna that experts proclaim does not work and if you look closely you will see that the phantom antenna maxes out at about -65 or less 66 DB, just in case you can't keep up the Midland mxta 26 antenna, the antenna I use on my Jeep can pick up Chris' weak RF electricity a little better than the Nagoya antenna or the ghost antenna and now I will test how well each of these antennas can transmit.

Chris will connect each of these antennas to his radio one at a time and then transmit from his 5 watt radio with each different antenna so we can measure how effectively each antenna can emit the RF electricity from 10 miles away which I will be receiving. Chris transmits on my SDR which is connected to a large 10 DB gain base station antenna and just like before we will measure the signal strength of each antenna while Chris is transmitting and that will demonstrate how effectively and actively Every antenna can emit RF electricity, which proves it time and time again. everyone, if the ghost antenna is garbage and doesn't work at all, as so many experts have proclaimed, let's now see how strong Chris's signal is when transmitting on the Nagoya antenna and how he just saw the signal strength when transmitting in Nagoya. ut-72g was minus 62 or minus 63 DB, next Chris will be transmitting on the Midland mxta 26 antenna, the same antenna I use on my Jeep and as you can see if you're paying attention the Midland mxta 26 is hitting the meter or so minus 50 or minus 51 DB and that's almost 10 DB better than the Nagoya ut-72g a huge and surprising difference and finally the moment we've all been waiting for Chris will broadcast on the Midland mxta 25 phantom antenna the same antenna as the The experts in line they claim that it doesn't work and is basically nothing more than a dummy load that doesn't work.

According to all those experts, it would be impossible to even receive a 5 watt signal from this antenna 10 miles away, so let's see what happens and how it can. Look with your own eyes, the phantom antenna comes in at minus 51 or 52 DB, pretty much the same as the larger mxta 26 antenna and almost 10 DB better than the Nagoya antenna, so my friend, the only thing this proves is three things. Number one, experts and comment kings are idiots and should always be ignored. B the performance of the Nagoya antenna, the antenna praised by experts in online reviews as one of the best antennas you can buy was very disappointing and three, this little antenna is not just a dummy load