Why not stick with what came with the radio? Every Kenwood I've had worked great with the original antenna.
I still use the original on the G71 I have. The F6 I had to replace because I caught it in a door...I did change that one out for the Vertex quadband antenna which gave me some 6M rx capability-plus it was much cheaper. But that's been working great too.
I don't think much of the ham grade aftermarket antennas, especially the big long ones. They catch on things, break easy, and don't work enough better to justify spending the money on them.
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On 2/20/2025 2:31 PM, Lou WA5LOU via groups.io wrote:
Have you tried any of the antenna groups?
Lou WA5LOU
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 2:26?PM K7SRG via groups.io <> <srg734@... <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Maybe out of context of this group but I'm looking for some
intelligent answers.
Anyone know of a "good" whip for HT use?? Dual band would be nice,
but better yet a triband better.? I' tried a few models from
Diamond, Comet and some "white box" ones from China. However the
return loss is poor to unusable in the area of 8 ~ 0 db
respectively. I have more results on the web site, but don't wanna
bore the readers.
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