Bundle Antenna Differences and Overview

[Applause] howdy so welcome to breckenridge uh in this video we are going to be talking about antennas uh we have basically all the antennas with us that we sell here at mobile must have and i wanted to walk through what is the pros and cons of each antenna which one might be right for you and which one kind of goes with the right bundle so uh sit down relax grab i guess a cup of um hot cocoa and we'll get started so the idea here is to go through each antenna show you what it is a little bit more about that antenna and what its best use case is now each of these antennas are typically already going to be in one of the bundles you might see on our site we've got stuff from the essentials the full timer bundle the speed demon bundle and the ultimate road warrior bundle but you'll notice there's different versions of each one and usually the only difference is which antenna is going with it so we're going to do a quick summary of each antenna and you can then hopefully make a better decision on which antenna will be right for you okay first antenna we're going to start with is the pointing now the pointing is the one i have installed on my rv it's a little blown out you should be able to see it right above kind of where the patio is and that's the antenna we've had installed for a year and it's been fantastic if you want to see how i installed it you can see the video here um and it's been a really great option for us some of the great things about the pointy antenna is it's so versatile out of the box on ways to install it obviously you can go with the most standard which is the way i've done it which is the cable straight out the bottom and i'll show you as an example just like you can see on this one where the cables come right out the bottom that would be very standard and probably the most common use case but what's great about the pointing is it can do a flush exit mount i'm going to pull a clip from another video we've made here um and you can see the cables are going to come directly out the back and what that allows you to do is stick the antenna directly on the roof this would be good for air streams or good for advancement you might not be able to drill through so easily and then the cables can go through another entrance whether that's a refrigerator vent a tank vent any sort of other vent you might have a solar drop you already have existing uh the cables can come right out the back here's a picture of one two um and they can go through an existing one same antenna no options no extra anything needed um and that's that's a great feature for this antenna uh the final thing you can add as an option uh would be magnet mounts so whether you're doing a drop down uh for the cables or flush out the back you can add these little magnets in and the magnets will allow it to stick to any sort of metal surface great for van builds or something again with that with that top surface now one key note here with the pointings is they do not require a grounding plane the grounding plane is going to be typically just a metal sheet uh that you would put in between your roof uh and the antenna and it's not for electrical grounding it's more actually for directional signal into the antenna that's why you need that metal kind of bouncing plate uh but the pointing like i said does not need one it has one built in which is a great feature you don't have to add anything else to it so one important note with the pointings as of at least december of 2020 is they do not have a 600 megahertz feature that means it's not going to do some of these newer 5g bands this might be updated check the description below if that has changed we will add that there but at this time they don't have a feature or an option for that all right and then the last final note here is the cable that comes attached is going to be 6.8 feet that is going to be the standard length for all of our antennas um except if i say something different but that's 6.8 feet 3 meters is going to be the default length for our antennas and if you're going to do the install like you saw in my video i did that bead of dicor around the edge and i think that's a really good extra kind of waterproofing layer for these antennas one it will actually add a little bit of adherence since dicor so sticky will help if there's any issue with the sticky pad for that antenna going anywhere but two you just want to make sure you're not going to have any water going into your roof and causing future damage so just putting an extra layer of dye core around this uh around the antenna i think is a great option and that's going to be true for any of the following antennas we talked about i think if you're installing something on the roof of your rv use dicor assuming if you have kind of more of a standard rv roof or silicone if you're doing something metal like on a van okay that's it for pointing now let's go to mobilewalk so this is going to be the mobilemark antenna from a size standpoint it's going to be a little bit smaller it's definitely a lower profile and it's not thin shaped or at least as fin shaped as the pointing one i think this is a great option for smaller uh roofs just in general it just takes a little bit less profile up and so that can really make a big difference this does have a couple different mounting options now you can only have the cables come out the bottom like this you don't have all of the mounting options you did with the pointing um but this does have an optional pull mount um you can buy with it so if you wanted to mount it let's say on the side of a roof rack or something like that you can get a pole mount and then this will mount to a pole that's also popular for boats if you've got any sails or something like that and you wanted an all-directional omnidirectional antenna you can do that with this and this will mount to a pole now same as before this is a 6.8 foot cable that comes with this by default however with mobilemark they do offer a customized length option you can go to uh the product and i can link this one below for the custom link um and so you can get this really as long as you need now we do always recommend going with the shortest length possible 6.8 feet is a really good kind of uh a good midway um the shorter your distance is with the cable run the better the overall signal improvement you are going to get from this antenna and that's true for all antennas in general um so yeah so this is the the mobile work now one thing with the mobile mark on the installs is it does require a metal surface to mount to if you're putting it on top of an rv like this you're going to need the grounding plane that you can buy as an option with it or if it's going right on top of a van roof no problem you can just mount it directly to that metal roof too final note with this is the mobile marks do support the lower 600 frequency so that's going to give you band 71 support for t-mobile um so just kind of keep that in mind if you're going t-mobile or think you might have a t-mobile plan and the router you have selected like the speed demon one supports that um this has that 600 megahertz support now if you have an older one it might not have that 600 that's for all new ones kind of as of november um for for at least from for mobile must have they do have two different models so if you're looking um just make sure you get the uh the right one with the 600 megahertz if you're buying it from us that's the main one we sell so you shouldn't have any issues but just be aware of that all right so this is the mobile mark also final note it comes in black if you're looking for a black antenna you can get this in white or black okay and this is the last omnidirectional antenna we do in bundles and this is called the parsec antenna now from a size difference you can see the parsec is quite a bit bigger than the mobile mark the height wise it's not that much different but um i mean just the diameter in general is going to be quite a bit uh quite a bit bigger you do get a pretty big advantage with that the mobile mark and the pointing antenna from before have almost identical performance see they're kind of equal in the performance realm um this guy will give you quite a bit of a performance boost and that's mainly because they're bigger they can pick up weaker signals and it just helps overall in some of those areas when i tested it on rv we saw about a 10 decibel gain just by using this antenna over the pointing could have been where i was we're doing more testing on it um but that is what we're seeing which is pretty exciting considering um it's still omnidirectional now this is also a 701 so you're going to get you get all your cables coming out the back they're all individual and they're all pretty small so you don't need the largest hole but probably an inch and a quarter is what we see for most of these 701 cables i mean you can see the gps one is dangling independently now the parsec on the back does have this big sticky pad so it works very similar to the way the pointing installed which again you can see in that video but again i would always recommend doing that dicor edge one key thing to keep in mind with the parsec antenna is it comes with 15 feet of cable over the six and a half 6.8 feet in the other ones um just because this is where it's manufactured and how it's made they only come in a 15 foot option so if you need a little bit longer of a cable and say seven feet or 6.8 feet is not going to work for you uh this could be an option i have found that if you're going to add that 15 foot extension to like the mobile mark or the or the pointing you're going to be i think within a close range of just going with the parsec anyways so for a performance boost and a longer cable just check it it might be close to a break even for you and then with the performance gain you're actually end up on top with that so just do the price comparison depending on what bundle you're looking at um and this might be a good option final note with this is this also supports that lower 600 frequency support so if you're looking for that nationwide 5g t-mobile band uh this would be a good option you can pick that up again another the speed demon bundle does support band 71 so you could this is a good option for that and that's why we put this in these in the plus bundles the road warrior plus uh ultimate road ware plus and the speed demon plus just because it's just got such a better boost on it now um if you're looking for a magnet mount option with a parsec it does come with it but it is a fully it's a completely different antenna this is the same parsec antenna but with a magnet mount option so you can see it's it's the same overall shape and size it's literally the same antenna but when you buy it they actually pre-mount the magnet to it it's here's what it looks like from the side um so it adds it's about five inches um top to bottom and then each of these pads are where the magnets are now if your roof is unlevel you can twist these and make them level like each one kind of twist on like the like a couch foot or something where you can kind of chair foot where you can level it um so you can kind of work with the divots in the roof depending on how that van is is set up you can do that and then the cables from the bottom here will just come flush out just like you would see in the pointing where they just will they will mount flush so the cables will come right out so i think that's a really great option if you're looking for this big performance boost in the in the parsec but you need something with a magnet mount option this is a good solution final note with the parsec is they do come with a pole mount option um so you can check uh the link i'll link below for that mount but it's also an option with all the antennas if you're looking for a pole mount these do support it they also support a wall mount so the basically the way the mount and i just grabbed this one because it's lighter and at least easier to show the wall mount will actually um kind of come out this way and then stay flush with the side so you can mount it directly up against the wall and have that mount uh attached and then you have all your cables coming down you have to manage those all right so there is the antenna lineup as we have it here at mobile wants to have you have the pointing the mobile mark and the parsecs now the ones i showed today are all seven and one antennas and those are gonna be really solid for anything that needs a four by four uh memo or if you're doing two two by two nemo routers those would be good that would be your like transit duos that have two uh two modes built in each modem has two cell antennas so you need four total also the cat 18 transit from pep wave is also going to be a four by four again all the ones i showed today are going to be compatible with that now if you're looking at something like the full timer bundle or or depending on another another router that might only need two lte antennas a lot of these come in a five in one configuration you can get the pointing the mobile mark and there's actually one called a pep wave puma that come in a five in one configuration and that would be two lte two wi-fi and one gps um and then pointing actually has a three in one and a two in one so depending on what router you're trying to mix that with uh we can make sure we have the right antenna for you um if you have any questions all right guys well thank you for hanging out with me my hands are so cold i cannot feel them so i'm gonna go inside and if you have any questions though the best place to reach out to us is actually info at mobilemusthave.com and we will be happy to answer any of your questions although feel free to leave comments down below and we'll get to you there too all right guys thank you and i'll see you next time [Music] you

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Length: 14min 18sec (858 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2021