Bingfu Dual Band VHF UHF 136-174MHz 400-470MHz Ham Radio Antenna Two Way Radio Walkie Talkie 2.5 inch Mini Soft Whip SMA Female Antenna 2-Pack for Wouxun Baofeng BF-F8HP UV-5R UV-82 BF-888S

Wonderful. They work great!

No range loss, great buy.

Surprisingly, this antenna worked better than the one that came with my GM-30 GMRS radio. I used to only pick up one NOAA channel at my house, but now receive three NOAA channels with this antenna. My only complaint is there's a slight gap between the radio and antenna when screwed down. I put a small rubber o-ring there to fill the gap and it works.

Good signal reception,quality material

I recently bought these stubby Chinese Bingfu dual band antennas because I thought I would get the same quality performance that the higher quality Diamond RHF10 or Nagoya NA-810 SMA male stubby antennas gave me. I WAS DEAD WRONG! The saying you get what you pay for is very true if you scrutinize and dissect these antennas like I did. I actually sacrificed a perfectly good Nagoya NA-810 SMA male stubby antenna to compare its internals to this Bingfu antenna. The difference was as night and day. I had a feeling the internals would be different just by bending the Bingfu antenna slightly compared to bending the Nagoya antenna. The rubber felt cheaper and softer on the Bingfu, the length of the antennas is not the same where the Nagoya is a few millimeters longer. The coil metal used is much thicker and sturdier on the Nagoya but that was not what shocked me the most. What really caught my eyes was the base of the antenna where the coil connects. The difference was like apples and oranges. The Nagoya has a larger metal base in height and diameter compared to the flimsy Bingfu antennas. I wish I would have uploaded some pictures of my experiment but unfortunately it didn't occur to me at the time and those dissected antennas were tossed in the garbage a few days ago. All I will say is this much.....I have learned my lesson not to fall for these too good to be true offers on some of these cheaper priced Chinese antenna products that are flooding the US market built with cheaper quality sub standard materials, imperfections and simply do not give you the performance that their Japanese or Taiwanese counterparts will give you. Save your money a while longer if you don't quite have it yet to buy the more expensive quality items because at the end of the day buying the cheaper crap just to save a few dollars will cost you more in the end. No more cheap Made in China antennas for me that's for sure.

The size of the antenna is convenient, and it shouldn't break easily because it is very flexible. It performed about as expected for a short antenna. The rubber coating is high-friction, and I found that causes it to drag on my shirt when my radio is worn on the belt.

Very good antenna would recommend

I must admit I was surprised by this little antenna. I bought them for the convenience of sticking a radio in my pocket and talking to other members of a group within a mile or so of one another. This morning, I contacted a repeater 20 miles away and came through clearly with a 5-watt radio. I tried on two other similar radios with the same result, so it wasn't specific to that radio. It's a straight shot between two high points to the repeater, but that's still pretty good. I was able to do the same with the 2 meter and the 70 centimeter repeaters, so it is genuinely dual band. I couldn't hit the more distant repeaters that I can get with longer antennas, but whadda ya want from a 2.5" stubby?