This has been the funnest Christmas in years Holy Cow. Thank you so much so Secret Santa I absolutely love this thing! I got a Diamond RH205 VHF antenna. (2 Videos at the end of pictures BTW)

I really love Scanner Radios so much and my newest handheld (Whistler WS1040) I got last Christmas is really important to me. I love using it a lot and am always scanning all sorts of transmissions every day and discovering new things. It's kind of hard to understand even from a normal geek perspective as not to many people are into RF let alone as big into VHF as I tend to be so it's really hard to put in to words just how much something like this really means to me but I'm over the moon about this thing.

This antenna is a literal beast, it's 52 inches long (nearly 4 1/2 feet) and super tall with incredible reception to match. It weighs almost as much as my scanner without the batteries! It's got the reception to match too, I'm picking up the Las Vegas NOAA Weather radio transmitter 110 miles away with a pretty tall mountain in the way as well as my local Airports AWOS (the phone added some noise interference in the videos but it's still coming in). It's 10 miles away and transmitting on a low power of only 500 milliWatts through a suburban neighborhood and I'm now receiving it clearer than a friends rooftop antenna.

I've always been hardcore about squeezing the most performance out of anything and this really takes the cake. The signals it pulled in and at such strength surprised even me. Not to mention it looks really cool, like the antennas you used to see on old school military field radios during the Korea and Vietnam eras. I haven't even tried VHF Lowband (my most favorite frequency range) with it but I just know it's going to be equally as impressive.

This thing is just too awesome and going to be never ending fun this Christmas. I'm going to have lots to do with this beast now, Thanks again so much Santa and Merry Christmas. You are a saint.