One of the use-cases I was thinking about for the BT-T009 would be on my Jeep. I think it would mount really cleanly to the fiberglass top without me having to worry about a random branch causing too much damage when on a trail.
That’s likely the average gain across the 3 bands, I’d guess…hard to say without a graph :-/
The 2 more performant antennae listed integrate with a ground plane a bit better and have slightly higher gain…this is generally expected for helical vs non. Helical is usually better if using on a drone or similar where weight is #1…the MB-00 is probably even better for your use-case, with a mostly flat profile and uses a magnetic mount so it’d just move if it hits a branch rather than break.
Yes, the benefit outweighs the addition of L5 in this case, that’s why they put the note there
And like suggested above if you’re after absolute precision the SPK6618H is #1