As I read about various after market antennas for my FT-60, I find a few things that surprise me. The first is that some vendors will say ¡°sma¡± connector but not mention if it is male or female. Then there is performance. For a given antenna, I will read that some people did an ¡°A/B¡± comparison with the standard rubber duckie that comes with the FT-60 and say the new antenna is much better. Others will say it is slightly worse. The only consensus for an antenna seems to be how easily it can be broken.
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I would like to hear what people on this BBS use for an after market antenna and under what conditions they use it.
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I have also seen and read about the tape measure yagi that is very easy to build. Has anyone used one of these in order to communicate with a distant repeater?
