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Jun 20, 2020
May cause desense on some radios
The antenna appears well made and a convenient size for a tri-band antenna with some extra gain over the stock duck. Mine appeared to be authentic with extra graphics on the packaging and text on the antenna itself.
Unfortunately, the extra gain caused desense on the receiver. I observed this on 4 different Baofeng UV-5R models in different environments. This also happened when connecting other external antennas to these radios, so the antenna is not at fault. The desense was only observed when working weak signal simplex. Repeaters with there stronger signals seemed to be fine.
Transmitter performance seemed greatly improved on 2M but no gain improvement was noticed on 220 or 70cm over the standard duck. It should be noted that the standard duck is a single band antenna so maybe it’s designed better.
All in all I like the antenna and will keep it even though doesn’t work well on some of the HTs I own.