📡 The Survival Antenna: Transforming Your Portable or Vehicle Ham Radio Into a Life-Saving Tool - Find the Perfect Adapter for Yaesu FT-2DR, FT-60R, and FT-1DR-HD Review

This product changed my life. I live offline and without mobile communications. So I rely on ham radio to keep in touch with friends, neighbors, and home while I'm hunting or hiking. The Survival Antenna has at least doubled the distance I can reach with my portable radio. You don't have to climb a high hill or mountain to ask your neighbors for help to get a bear or a moose - it's amazing! I read reviews before buying and one guy (Elmer) said it was cheap. I wonder if he even tried? Anyway, I…

Arrived very quickly via Fedex The insert has a measured SWR and the frequency it is tuned to 146.021 and an SWR of 1.02. My tests showed almost exactly the same numbers. The high-gain Rubber Ducky RT radio and even the Comet SMA high-gain VHF antenna couldn't even reach nearby repeaters without problems. Today we reach most local repeaters, some of them 30 miles away! pretty good. This is a quality product, well thought out and made. For some problems, it helps to get or use an SMA adapter…

This antenna serves its intended purpose well as an easy to deploy field antenna, extending the range of a 2m HT radio beyond a standard rubber stud antenna. I was thinking of using the antenna along with a 20ft Shakespeare Wonderpole to use ARES. Installed this way, the performance is comparable to my existing copper J antenna that I use as a fixed mount at home... and you don't need wood. Another possible use for the antenna is mounting in 5ft ¾ inch 40 gauge PVC pipe to create a rigid…