These are okay *UHF* antennas. VHF = DEAD AIR. Good for when radios on charger.

JUST ONLY GET THESE FOR UHF. Honestly, this antenna is rather deaf for VHF. Although I primarily got this as something to use on my radios while charging or in storage, in order to not have large antennas all over the place, it DOES work decently for UHF repeaters. With UHF simplex, while still relatively short range, it still EXCEEDED my expectations. Shipping was INSANELY fast. Ship in an ePacket and arrived from China in only SIX days -- a new record! Now for caveat: 146-148Mhz appears to be "dead space", so if you won't to use repeaters in those areas, forget it. Even a strong VHF signal like NOAA at 162.xx is DEAD AIR. I only mainly use them for my radios to have something on the antenna port while they are charging, however. I have quite a number of both SMA-F and SMA-M versions of this antenna as I have many (14) HT radios: Yaesu, TYT, BTech, Baofeng. Luiton, etc. I have a LOT of these little antennas, as I have a lot of HT’s. A couple more just arrived and I noted that these ones came with grey lettering for “SRH805S” on them and they do not say “Diamond”, however I noted no difference in performance (still lack of VHF) from the previous ones with blue lettering and “Diamond” branding. Honestly, I’m skeptical that ANY of these (grey or blue) are made by Diamond, at least not the Diamond that is known for outstanding antennas. Just take these for what they are, a means of greatly reducing the operating size while still being able to get adequate performance out of NEARBY UHF REPEATERS. If you are expecting good simplex performance, you are likely going to be disappointed. Come on, these things are just a buck each!Read full review

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