- Different antenna types and lengths will give different contours when mounted
on the same vehicle; so while you might find a little gain in one direction, the
other 359 degrees suck. Same deal with radiation angle, which will directly
affect the range of the ground wave. Now I might ignore this issue if he had
tested the antennas from the top of a flying saucer....

And in my setup the X-Terminator outperformed the 102"SS
I never said it would outperform in any other setup because I never
ran any other setup.

- Probably the biggest problem with Tnom's "test" was that there was no
impedance matching from the coax to the antenna. Loaded antennas usually have a
lower feedpoint impedance, resulting in a larger mismatch (higher SWR). The
problem here is that if the radio and antenna are not properly grounded (and a
mag-mount is -not- a proper ground), the SWR meter isn't going to show that
mismatch unless the meter is connected at the antenna feedpoint, which was not
the case (and wouldn't have mattered anyway because the antenna was not properly
grounded). He might have caught the problem had he measured and compared the
forward power of all the antennas, but he didn't because he felt is was "not
needed".

And my setup was typical for a magnet mount. I never said it was
anything different. Being a typical setup you would expect typical
results. A typical result is the most accurate result for a typical
setup.