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Excellent compact SMA Airband antenna
- By Michiel Kappeyne from New York NY USA on Wednesday, July 25, 2012
- Pros: Fine performance on Airband listening, compact and well made
- Cons: None
- Review: This helical rubber duck antenna is a great performer on Airband! It comes standard with the Yaesu Spirit VXA-710 transceiver but is available by itself here. At 7.5" versus 15" it is only half the length of the Diamond SRH77CA but works noticably better on Airband. I know this because I spent hours and hours swapping these two antennas between my Airband scanner (IC-R5) and the Yaesu while listening to Newark air traffic. Please note that I limit my comments to Airband only. The Diamond antenna is optimized for 2m/144MHz which may explain the surprising difference in performance given the difference in length and the Diamond's excellent reputation.
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