Diamond Antenna Dual-Band HT Antennas SRH77CA

Antenna for my Yaesu FT60r, didn't work as good as I've seen on YouTube. Very good price. Fast shipping.

Nice antenna upgrade for my dual band HT.

Get no complaints about audio quality from contacts, reach seems consistent with what you’d expect from 5w HT. Build quality looks and feels great.

I inherited an old Yaesu VX-2R 2m/70cm ham transceiver. It came with a VERY short stubby antenna. I measured the stock antenna SWR as follows:146MHz - 2.04:1442MHz - 1.02:1After installing the Diamond SRH77CA:146MHz - 1.01:1442MHz - 1.02:1Obviously, the improvement at VHF is dramatic and substantial. UHF is about the same. YMMV as far as improvement depending on your stock antenna, but certainly got my money's worth. A little bit unwieldy at 15-3/4" but manageable.

Works the best when I am in a open area verses inside the built up areas of the city in two different states. It is the best price range too. I searched for the best HT aftermarket antennas and read the reviews from different Amateur and Shortwave sites. The listed the current best buys and this came up. So I bought it.

Purchased for use with a Yaesu FT-5DR. The stock Yaesu antenna is only matched to the 2m and 70cm band, where in the 2m band at best the VSWR is 2:1 in band. While the radio supports reception outside of these bands, the stock antenna might as well be a brick with >10:1 VSWR.The Diamond in 2m is 1.3:1 and in the 70cm band 1.15:1That said the different in loss is in reality only 0.5 dB, thus in the ham bands there is no practical difference.But if your intent is to use the radio for reception outside of the ham band, such as air band, clearly the Yaesu stock antenna is very poor and the Diamond is a good choice.Point in fact I decided to keep the Diamond antenna given the ability to receive in other bands (e.g. air band). But if it wasn't for this requirement, the stock antenna is really good enough and you will not detect a difference in performance.

I get an swr of 1.5 on 147.25mhz on a baofeng ar5rm. You will need a female to female adapter. I consider this a good antenna.

First of all, Hamcity delivered exactly what I ordered, and fast. But possibly as a help to other buyers; pay attention to the gender of the SMA. This antenna is what I would call "standard male SMA" (not reverse), so it has inner thread with male center pin. In my case I ordered this while I was also waiting for delivery of a new Yaesu FT-65R from another vendor. In the user manual Yaesu states that the antenna should be "male SMA". This is doubly wrong: the FT-65R radio has a "reverse male SMA", which means outer thread and male center pin, so the antenna needs to have "reverse female SMA" meaning inside thread (like on a nut) and a female center.I think this topic creates lots of confusion in the market. I'm returning the antenna, but like I said above, Hamcity did their job well, hence 5 stars, so my "blame" instead falls partly on Yaesu for the error in their manual, and partly on myself for not waiting to order the antenna until I had the radio in my hand :)