GRA‑D220 Mini Discone Scanner Antenna | 100–1600 MHz RX, 144/430/904/1200 MHz TX | 2.15 dBi Gain, 38" Stainless Portable Omnidirectional Antenna

I've mounted this tempoarily indoors and am very happy of the improved performance vs. my scanner's default antenna. Night. and. Day. In fact, on the 2M and 70cm bands, it matches and aruably beats my well mounted diamond X50 for my transciever. Construction quality is great (no missing parts for me!) and the size is smaller than my initial expectation. Glad to buy something from Taiwan rather than China too.. Go ahead and spend a few extra $ on this; you'll be happy; this is a 'lifetime' antenna for scanner application.

I use this with a cheap baofeng in my car and works great. Appears to be very good quality! Have not yet checked if it's SWR is correct for the bands it said and will update after testing.

In my humble opinion, this antenna is not worth the 100 plus dollars after taxes. The physical size is way smaller than I expected and the discone design is virtually useless as a mobile antenna on a vehicle. VSWR is NOT resonant on any of the frequencies it claims in the specs. I was extremely disappointed in this product right from the get go. Quality in build is not that great. And the price is ridiculously high for a SO SO antenna made in Taiwan. Even 50 dollars for this antenna is asking a bit much.

If you have limited space and want a good scanner antenna this is the solution for you. Granted, It's not as good as other scanner antennas I have had but for the money you can't beat it.

I am using this with two uniden scanners, BCD325P2 and SDS100. This antenna allows me to receive Clear consistent signals from sources that I was not able to receive with other antennas. I use this antenna indoors and it works perfectly.

Reception from this is excellent, for the bands it handles. I put it on a magnetic mount and slapped it down on a metal balcony railing, then wound the cable from the mount around the railing. I'm feeding that into an RTL-SDR on a laptop and getting really good results. Definitely making me curious about what a full-size discone would give me. Unfortunately, had to ding a star because it was missing some of the lock washers the instructions called for. It should also come with a cheap stamped wrench to tighten the elements, at this price. I would get a pretty substantial magnetic mount if you want to use this on a vehicle in motion, and I would definitely use threadlocker all over the place. If the magnetic mount is strong enough, you might want to consider a neoprene buffer pad or something to help damp out the vibration. But definitely a good piece of kit, and if all you've been using are whips, I would order one.

I assembaled this antenna in a few minutes, hooked up to my 536hp, and now the CHP frequencies come in loud and clear and overall recepition is greatly improved. I'm using it as a stationary antenna, and it's great for that application. If your looking for a great dicone antenna that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, this is the one.

Smaller than i thought-then I've had full-size base-station vhf/uhf antennas, was surprised at its size, which will affect its overall propagation for receiving I believe. Works well enough, sturdy design, i have this mounted outside only about 40-50 feet airborne on a mast. I've picked up UHF stations 100 miles away during good conditions, although lately propagation for these frequencies seems pretty poor generally with any of my antennas. Unless this is mounted pretty well up in my area, line-of-site is still pretty limited even with this antenna, but being some radio frequencies are horizontal, some vertical I thought it better to have both geometric radials-a conical and a few semi-horizontals. still testing.

This is a high quality product and great value

Great Product ans performance!

This antenna did arrive with miasingy parts

I like the durability of it. It is being used for increasing the range of 2 scanners. The dislike is it is not easy to adapt to the scanners. Multiple adapters needed to make the unit function.