Originally Posted By: steve garrettOriginally Posted By: DAAThis is the radio most of the people I know are running:
Yaesu 2980
what antenna are you recommending with this unit?
So the antenna most recommended by the Hams in our area, and the one I used on my Jeep, is the
Larsen NMO 2/70B. I'm sure there are other good ones, but literally just about everyone I asked around here, said get that one, so I did, and I've been happy with it. It takes a beating on my Jeep and has held up well, SWR is pretty good, considering what a crappy mount location it has on my Jeep, seems to transmit well (given the mount location and SWR), receives well too.
Kind of too much info maybe, but Jeeps are terrible platforms for antenna mounting. I can get better SWR and TX by moving the antenna to the middle of my hood or putting it up on the dead coyote rack
. So I have an extra magnetic NMO mount and cable in the bottom of my go-everywhere tote. If worse ever came to worse and I really needed to get every bit of TX I could get out of my radio, I can use that. Have tested it and it does work like gangbusters, SWR of about 1.2. Which for a Jeep, is amazing.
I'm using
these antennas on my HT's. $20 antenna for a $25 radio
. They are locally made and the proceeds go towards amateur radio in my area though. And they really are fantastic HT antennas. They really do increase the performance of a Baofeng significantly compared to the factory rubber ducky.
- DAA