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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2025
If this is all you can afford, is not bad. Ok antenna
Robert Smith
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2025
Not so great of a antenna. So so on swr but could be better. Go with another antenna and don't waste you're money.
matthew
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025
Build quality is good and the NMO connections have no issues right out the box I tested this antenna and the SWR i got was 1.25 with a hood mount made by midland. Not sure if its my radio but receiving seems worse than my handheld, place my hand held next to this antenna and my handheld could pick up a local repeater but not my mobile on my vehicle.
Krashley
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
If I could give negative stars I would. This thing rusted. Looks bad. And works less. I couldn’t hit a repeater from 10 miles with this thing. I could with a Walmart cheapo handheld. I replaced it with a different antenna and can now do almost 50 miles
davido
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024
This antenna is exactly what it claims to be; a GMRS 3dbi whip antenna with an NMO mount.Why would you pay more? More expensive models may have a spring, or may be higher decibel propagation. If you really want a 6dbi antenna, get one of those. If you want an antenna with a spring, get one of those. But if you want a simple, 17.5" 3dbi antenna, this one works great.I tested its SWR at 462.x and 467.x frequencies, and it was less than 1.2:1 (closer to 1.1:1). So it's very well tuned. And it's well enough made that it feels solid and isn't going to fall apart.I've tested this compared to six other GMRS antennas. It is exactly what I would expect it to be. Low SWR, good signal strength, fairly compact. It performs better than my "ghost" antenna, and not as good as my higher decibel antennas, which are much longer, and twice the price. But that's exactly what I expect; a 3dbi antenna that is well tuned.
Matt
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024
I bought this for someone else, so I can’t give a long-term review. They were very happy with performance.When I bought this, I did throw it on the antenna analyzer. I didn’t save the actual measurements, but I found that this has a low SWR not only on the stated UHF range, but also on VHF somewhere around 150 MHz. It is not marketed as a dual-band antenna and you should probably buy one that is if that’s what you need, but it’s a welcome perk.Note that this is an NMO-mount antenna; it screws onto an NMO base and won’t work without one. It’s a very common standard so you can find lots of options.
S. Wilson
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2024
Bought one of these and put it on my tractor with a magnet mount on top roll bar. It reaches 5 out of 8 repeaters here! Got another one with a trunk mount NMO and I still hit my buddies 80 miles away with the same antenna and repeaters. I did have to snip a tat off the back antenna to get the swr to 1.1 trunk mount. That's the repeater channels. Great antenna!
Bluewater Consumer
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2024
Made my Midland 115 run extremely well.
MJM
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2024
This antenna has low SWR reading all under 1.3 and the repeater channels at a perfect 1.00. No need to spend money on other brands when this works better.
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