Would this be any improvement over the stock antenna that is on the Baofeng 888s radio? Thanks
1825300
Yes, it will be. The stock antennas on HTs are almost always very inefficient, and this dual band antenna gives you more gain. I've been able to hit repeaters with this antenna that I haven't been able to hit with the stock antenna.
1825301
Yes. The stock antenna is good if your looking at the repeater tower. Our members say don't even try to talk around town on simplex because you most likely you 'can't' ! I tryed without much luck and then bought this antenna. I talk with it checking into our club net and control say's my signals are as good as we can get.
1825302
Yes. The stock antenna is good if your looking at the repeater tower. Our members say don't even try to talkaround town on simplex because you most likely you 'can't' ! I tryed without much luck and then bought thisantenna. I talk with it checking into our club net and control say's my signals are as good as we can get.
1825303
It is a better antenna than my Baofeng came with, but not by much as I would have liked. To be fair, I will say that I keep this antenna on the radios instead of the stock antennas....
1825304
It increased the reception on my BaoFeng *UV-5R Plus* UV 5R+ Dual-Band 136-174/400-480 MHz FM Ham Two-way Radio. I'm not an expert, but I would think it would help.
1825305
I want say yes. I can pick up users as far as Arkansas. I haven't tried with the factory one. All I'm all you'll have a back up.
1616232
Yes it will. However, in my case I did not see any performance improvement using this antenna. I ended up returning it and sticking with the stock antenna.
114818
NO, it only looks cool, your reception is not as good with this product as with a factory antenna.
1237716
Yes. I found it MUCH better than the stock antenna AND the 701 models! It's a bit long from some and the tip popped off one and is lost, but that is it.
1936637
What type of antenna are you using. On my midland magnetic mount it tuned to good SWR. On my Xterra with an antenna on the roof rack I had to add a thicker longer ground wire to the antenna mount.. SWR is related to the antenna more than the radio.
1632033
Yes. I purchased this for a Baofeng BF-F8+ and it is an excellent upgrade. The stock antenna is worthless on the Baofeng.
74442
you need an SMA Reverse polarity Male connector, other wise you´ll be stock with an antenna you cant use.
1936643
I don't think you will get any benefit from tuning the antenna for this radio. I did not attempt to tune mine but had trouble with the connector. The threads were so bad that I severed the wire while trying to tighten the connection. I returned the radio for a full refund. I did operate it briefly and tested it against a 15 year old GE 40ch walkie talkie with an external antenna jack. The GE radio performed better in my side-by-side comparison.
1800118
Off the top of my head, I would say yes. I would download the parts manual from Winegard for the new antenna and your antenna and check the diagrams.
608061
these uvb5 & uvb6 radios are absolute crap.....I have had to throw away at least 3 of them. Total garbage..... if you are going to get a baofeng get the uv-82 or the original uv5r. As for antennas spend the extra money and get a comet or diamond from a RADIO retailer not here or ebay you will be wasting your money with all the no name knock off antennas here especially since most of them are for the business band not the ham band. FIY the stock antenna on the uv82 actually does pretty descent for a stock one.anyway good luck, mark KC9ZHR 73!
1993003
I'm sorry to say, neither. I tried three of these Sangean ANT-100 antennas on two different Sangean CL-100 radios and there was absolutely no signal improvement whatsoever on ANY band (AM, FM or NOAA). The signal I was receiving prior to attaching this "antenna" greatly degraded the moment I plugged it in. I also took the liberty of trying this "antenna" on several other radios in my home and unfortunately, I obtained the same result. In my opinion (and experience), this so-called "antenna" is literally worthless and Amazon should discontinue this product immediately.
109649
Compared with the stock antenna I found that upgrading to this one made a very good improvement in the signals coming in and going out and also being very flexible you don't have to worry about damaging it compared to the stock one which can be damaged if bent to much as well the possibility of damaging the antenna base on the radio...for the price you can't go wrong
1335857
AM/FM reception on my stock antenna (Ram 1500) was fine on all channels. Switched to the stubby and the only channel I had reception on was a local LI station and even that had a significant amount of static. Left the radio tuned to that station, switched back the the regular antenna and the signal was crystal clear.
2248730
If i remember correctly, my stock stereo needed an adapter to use this antenna, when i bought my aftermarket stereo i no longer needed the adapter
1664668
Not sure, but it's junk! The dot that came with my radio worked better! This thing is mounted on the mirror of my Semi.It's performance is quite a bit less than the stock dot antenna.
1040012
I was able to significantly improve my radio's reception of my favorite station which is over 100 miles away. Before purchasing the Terk antenna I could get the station but it was full of static and hard to listen to. With the antenna, the station is now crystal clear. I'm happy with the antenna's performance. No guarantee it will help your reception, but if it doesn't meet your expectation just return it to Amazon for a refund.
1231658
If you are a ham and are using it on 2 and 70 cm bands, it might be good to invest in a reasonable dual band antenna. I picked up a Nagoya NA-771. Seems to work fine but ... since the Baofeng has no real signal strength meter, you can only get qualitative data. The only problem with the Nagoya antenna is that it is a bit long and bothersome if you are planning to be very mobile, that is carrying the radio around. If you want to use the radio in bands other than 2 meter and 70 cm, then the stock antenna might be as good as anything.