Bingfu Vehicle Mobile Ham Radio Antenna Dual Band VHF UHF 136-174MHz 400-470MHz NMO Mount Magnetic Base Low Profile Antenna PL259 Male Connector for Car Truck Amateur/Marine VHF Radio

If you’re looking for durable, waterproof performance, it works 2.5x better than the whip for my Baofeng. I’ve got decent repeater performance in my car for under $110 total (Baofeng and this)

This is a great GMRS antenna that works really well when it comes to hitting a repeater that's 60 plus miles away in blankets the region.

I am using this for a GMRS radio and it works great.

Bingfu Vehicle Ham Radio Mobile Radio Antenn: does the job, had a few mo's now. No issues so far.

I needed a compact antenna and saw this one with a "4 star" rating so decided to try it. I new convenience vs effectiveness would be a tradeoff. I am glad I tested it with an antenna analyzer before installing and using it. The lowest I could get the SWR was at the very low end of the amateur 2 meter band. 1.2:1 at 144 mhz. It rose rapidly after that. I needed it for use on the marine band as they state in the description it will work on. It WILL work on burning out your final amplifier if you try to use it. 12:1 SWR on marine band channel 16. That means that almost all the 25 watt output of the radio is being reflected back to the radio, not being radiated. Certain death for your final amp. I highly recommend you stay far away from this antenna for anything other ham radio use. Even then I would not trust it on any of my expensive radio equipment. You have been warned.

Had a shorting out Nagoya whip on my Jeep, saw this, decided to try it out. The magnet is strong enough to withstand weather and such. I would definitely take it off before a car wash, were I to ever take a Jeep through one. Center of the steel roof, works great. Got clean signal to one repeater 9 miles away, unit-to-unit about 4 miles where the previous whip was scratchy at 3 miles. Can't attest to Ham capability, works fantastic on GMRS though. Unit is sealed, we'll see how weatherproof it is as Dallas heads into winter. Extremely small, but punches like a bigger antenna. I like it a lot.

This cost me $25 for the antenna and mount. In the antenna world, that's not much at all, and you should expect to get what you pay for. This is both good and bad. The antenna itself works ok. It absolutely beats sitting in my vehicle with a Nagoya NA-711G screwed into my hand-held. Its consistency and audio quality wasn't as good as the MXTA12 and MXTA26 I replaced it with though. There was also a popcorn sound on GMRS channels, but it was liveable, and wasn't present 100% of the time. The magnet is strong enough so that the low profile antenna will stay in place on your roof. If you move up to a larger, heavier antenna, you're going to want to upgrade your mount to something with a wider base, and a stronger magnet. The MXTA12 was a good replacement for me. Basically, if you're on a budget, this isn't a bad buy, and it's better than trying to use your hand-held's antenna from inside your vehicle. Now the bad. The PL259 connector cracked at the tip. There's a tiny piece of metal that's missing, about half of the very tip of the connector, and I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be stuck in any of my adapters, so I don't know if it broke during use, or was like that when it showed up. The magnet doesn't have any kind of silicone cover, so I suspect that over time, it would have worn away at my paint. I've replaced it with something else, but continue to use it for SDR scanning, and GMRS reception from my office. Stuck it on a 9" pie pan, and it does an ok job.

I pick up so much more chatter around town on GMRS, FRS, MURS, 2m, 1.25m HAM than any other budget antenna that I tried before & it transmits far better too ! The SWR tested a little high at 3 but I don't care because in actual use, I got a report from a dude saying that I was coming in perfectly clear through a Repeater 17 miles away in heavily wooded Pennsylvania on a 10 watt handheld Radio that I have mounted in the car :)

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To be honest, I wasn't expecting this antenna to work at all. The previous antenna was too long for me to put on to enter underground parking, so I needed a somewhat short antenna for my radio to work. As soon as I put this antenna on, I start receiving signals where I wasn't be able to receive with my previous longer antenna, which shocked me. I suppose placement also plays a big role? Anyway, exceed my expectation.

Good antennae for the most of time.

Very good value and decent quality this is my second one. For winter opps rub down with dielectric grease. Highly recommend surprisingly good coverage.