Tram Amateur Dual Band Hi-Gain Hi-Power Magnet Antenna

working well good signal reports connected to a foot 857d i have mostly just used it for the local repeater but made a qso of a little over 30 miles on a trip recently satisfied with the performance four stars as when i received it the antenna was screwed onto the base so tight it took a lot of work to release it just came in today have a base antenna 20 in the air we have a pair of sastone z218 mobile radios cheap 25w more like 10 dual band but they receive and talk grey truck has a cheap magnet mount antenna forget the name about 19 inches we talked to this truck from 15 miles away 2 meters or mers so he heads to church gets over the back side of the ridge and goes vain for a few minutes every time then returns as he climbs out of the hole kinda scratchy at four miles down the next ridge it's hard to 144 151 mhc to reach to reach there well i tossed this antenna on the wife's grand ch