Ham Radio - The ABBREE VHF UHF "tactical" antenna.

Indeed !
G3SEA/KH6

 

I have two, which I use with FRS, GMRS, and MURS radios. It extends their range considerably, and helps lower the noise levels. They show no folding memory.

 

hi, Someone speaks well more badly ... so it really works well this antenna or better to let it go?

73

 

This.

 

There are several versions of this antenna, with different bendable blade lengths. In ALL circumstances these antennas outperform coiled meander 'stubbies' that come with the radios, when speaking directly into the HT mike.

 

I hope you also examine the 70cM performance of this antenna.
It would also be interesting to check the transmit performance which would probably require a second person

 

someone have tested this antenna with a VNA analizer if work ok and the SWR is low in both VHF and UHF ham-radio bands ????

 

Cosa stai chiedendo?

 

se qualcuno ha testato questa antenna in VHF e UHF come rende e come va SWR con un analizzatore tipo VNA ?

 

aancora non capisco la tua domanda in nessuna delle due lingue...

The SWR measurement is correct on 2M, but may not represent the actual SWR of the SYSTEM

The relative gain measurement was problematic here, for the reasons stated.

73
Chip W1YW

 

I'll wager it's a young attractive couple who shows a lot of cleavage and 6-pack.

 

that would be a tactical purse

 

Compared to the Nagoya 2 meter/440 antenna the Abbree performs a little better in "real world" use. From barely making a repeater to almost full quieting at my ground floor residence to repeater 5 miles away. Radio was the Baofeng BF-F8HP around 8 watts output.

The only downside is that it makes the little radio top heavy. Overall it is a winner .

 

An antenna need not be resonant! A properly matched antenna has no choice but to radiate the RF fed into it, unless it's a resistor.

 

This is true. There are so many delusions towards resonance that this question shall be probably asked endlessly. So many people are used to think the resonance radiates. It isn't. RF current that flows in antenna's conductor radiates.

Any real antenna is a resistor as well. So antenna's efficiency is (roughly) its radiation impedance to loss impedance ratio.