Diamond Antenna Dual-Band HT Antennas SRH77CA

This is my favorite HT antenna. Any time I buy a new HT I immediately swap out the stock antenna with this Diamond SRH77CA VHF/UHF antenna. It's slightly taller than the stock antennas, which is why it performs better. But the height isn't too much that it interferes with wearing the radio on a belt or backpack.

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.

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Diamond is a Quality Ham Radio Antenna Company and this is a high gain antenna suitable for long distance VHF/UHFto Distant Repeaters and for International Space Station and Ham Sats Reception.

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.

The media could not be loaded. It is far superior to the rubber ducky antenna I got a lot more distance with it than I did with the rubber ducky. I have a BCD436HP scanner and I just got this on this past Saturday and this is what I use at home. I brought it with me to work today and it does a phenomenal job I have you would recommend this antenna as well worth the money. The connection works great it’s an SMA connection. I may even put on my FM stopper to see what it does do as well with it. I took it with me to work today and I work in Framingham Massachusetts and I was getting Boston Police Department from here with this antenna I couldn’t do it with the rubber ducky antenna. If you look on the purchases for your scanner, I would do it you’ll be very well pleased with it.

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.

Changed to this antenna because I wasn’t receiving any portable radio traffic in the 450 mh range with the standard antenna supplied with my Uniden SDS100. Greatly improved reception