Bingfu Vehicle Mobile Ham Radio Antenna VHF UHF 136-174MHz 400-470MHz Car Truck Amateur Two Way Radio Antenna with Lip Mount Fixed Bracket PL259 Male 5m 16.5 feet RG58 Cable

I was very hesitant because of the 3.9 stars when I purchased, but it’s a great antenna. I use it on my house for a base station and it’s great with 1.05 SWR. Crystal clear and no issues hitting a repeater 30 miles away with a 10W VHF/UHF radio. It’s unobtrusive, so the neighbors don’t bother me. A very light petroleum jelly coating on the antenna and a drop of loctite on the screws works miracles. As a mobile application I can see its shortcomings as it is brittle and long, so you probably need a spring mount so it doesn’t snap off if you hit something. Haven’t had any rust issues, but I also prepped the surface per above.

Pro: Works great. Con: low wind loading for a mobile antenna. First one snapped at the base in I95 travel. On car. Second one on motorcycle had held up well.

This antenna was fairly decent when it was mounted new, but after a single rainstorm the entire steel portion of the antenna began to rust. My SWR jumped from 1.1 to 6.5 and no amount of cleaning/tuning was able to reduce this. Spend the extra money and purchase a brand name antenna.

Works great. The mount was as advertised and simple to install on my truck.

Don't buy is you don't have a VSWR tester or don't plan on buying a tester. Heck if you are a do it yourself and you don't have a VSWR tester why are you doing it yourself? You need to test your antenna and that is just a fact. The testers are cheap. Yes, you need to cut the antenna with a hacksaw or ideally with a strong pair of wire cutters. Once you cut it you test it and keep testing it until you the VSWR correct. The antenna will work for GMRS it just needs to be cut to work and tested. You need to test the antenna every year or 6 months depending on weather conditions and where you drive. Pretty basic RF stuff. VSWR testing is required on all cellular systems. Most of them have auto test now in the equipment but in the old school days I had to manually test those big cell sites and it took time. ;) You need to test your systems.

Very good antenna for the price

I have had this antenna for maybe a month. It’s a great 2M/70CM mobile antenna for stationary use. I would NOT recommend mounting on a roof or anywhere in the main airstream while traveling. Due to the construction of the collapsible joint it does not hold up under wind pressure from highway speeds. It tends to lift the antenna and bend it back on this collapsible joint. After prolonged use (maybe 5 times running on highway with it up) the collapsible joint failed, breaking in two and loosing the antenna all together.

Excelente trae hasta la llave para fijarla

I put this on a 25 foot fibreglass push-up mast in Atlantic Canada. It was up a few months and survived some big storms when I had to take it down. Lo and behold, rust. If this is indeed stainless steel as stated, it is a very low grade.

Gained couple more km's when installed to a hand held radio.

As advertised but it took way longer than expected to arrived and the delivery dude should get fired but the product is awesome.

No Instructions, High SWR, Setscrews not qaulity. The setscrew are not stainless steel. Total garbage quality. The parts are not identifiable when assembling the units. Basically you match according to picture on line. I can not recommend this unit or the company who made or sell these units. They ought to be ashame to ship these unit as is.

Seems to have attached good to rear hatch of Honda HRV. SWR below 2 on two meters. Below 2 on most of 70cm but with a +/- 5 Mhz input for most repeaters it can be a bit fickle. Coax could be a bit longer. By the time I tucked and taped it in place and routes to the front of the car there was not much coax left. So far I’m relatively pleased however. Only been on the car for a few hours so to be seen how well it holds up.