Bingfu VHF UHF 136-174MHz 400-470MHz Ham Radio Antenna Magnetic Base | SMA Female Dual Band Antenna for Wouxun BaoFeng BF-F8HP UV-5R UV-82 BF-888S Handheld Walkie Talkie Two Way Ham Radio

Easy to install. Threading fit is great and includes a spring washer if you want to really tighten it down to your walkie. Transmits and receives just fine. Price is great. I got 2 for US $15.99. The only downer is the magnet which is insanely weak in this age where rare earth coin magnets can be had for 10 cents each when bought in bulk. For automotive application, this antenna would fall down at the slightest wind, vibration or movement without a separate purchase and use of a rare earth coin sized magnet.

I give it five stars for the price to performance ratio. I’m using this antenna for receive only with a Baofeng radio. It is superior to using a 17” Nagoya whip antenna. I’ve done back to back tests and the Bingfu picks up more signals and further away. It’s surprising how good it is. As many have noted, the magnet base is not strong enough for high speed highway use. They do include a 3M adhesive disc for more permanent mount. So five stars for performance and value. Just be aware of the weaker magnet base.

This antenna performs just as advertised, but I am giving it 4 stars because the magnetic mount is very weak and has a very small base. If you drive with this on your car, it will most likely fall over from the wind. However, the signal performance is excellent—as for range, I have been able to get out of the state and even out of the country using repeaters with this antenna! It has a low Standing Wave Ratio (SWR) and is compatible through many connectors with just about anything that you want to transmit or receive on such as my Whistler scanner!

I knew the length of the antenna but was surprised at just how small and thin it was. Feels somewhat toy like. The base is very small and the magnet is very weak. It barely stays in place on the hood of my jeep. I ended up taping it to the roof rack. I use a baofeng portable ham radio for off-roading and wanted an external antenna. The wiring screwed right into the antenna connection on the radio and was a perfect fit. The wire is also very thin and I was concerned I wouldn’t get a good signal. Overall it seemed to function well and I was able to communicate with others up to around 100 yards or so if line of sight was generally decent. For the price I’d say it’s an OK value but wouldn’t be my first choice.

I bought this Bingfu Dual Band magnetic roof-mount Radio Antenna for my truck, to use with my Baofeng handheld dual band Hand Transceivers. It works way better than I thought it would. You can't beat the price! I mounted it in the center of the cab roof, and ran the tiny coax across to the back door, and inside the cab, and it reaches across my sunvisor and hangs down from my rearview mirror. I was afraid that it wouldn't stay secured at highway speeds, so I used a 1" wide strip of white gorilla tape (my truck is white) to just go across the front of the base, and along the coax to where it enters the door. It hasn't moved, at all - it holds perfectly, at least up to 75 mph highway speeds. I don't have any trouble reaching repeaters up to about 25 miles distance, and transmitting/receiving are both great! Tiny little antenna, that works like a much larger, more expensive one. I highly recommend it as a inexpensive get-by for handheld radios for those times when you're traveling down the road.

Absolute garbage . Magnet is not strong enough to stick to your car on a highway . In town maybe . Reception is also a fail . Don’t waste your money on this period .

Seems to be a great product!!! I haven’t tried it yet myself , but I will over the Christmas holiday and New Years holiday @ my hunting property!!!

Edit 12/08/21: I've spent alot of time playing with this cheapy little thing since writing my initial review...the SWR is still horrible, but it DOES work...if you tweak it. At minimum making an ugly choke wrapped around a piece of ferrite as close to the feed point as you can get it, 5-6 turns, gets me a very nice clean signal on the weather stations and across both bands..SWR will not go below 2 on 2 or 70, but it is usable. Reception will be really strong one minute, have to hold the monitor button on the next transmission. Very strange, but clearly there's a short in the coax or it thinks it's part of the antenna. I have been able to open repeaters 30 miles away with it in recent days, I cannot do that with my stock antenna, and the reception quality vs stock antenna is incredible...when it works. I'm not sure if it's overloading or what, but it seems to be hit or miss and is very finicky...one more turn around the ferrite and it's dead, any less and it cuts in and out every 2 seconds. I'm changing this from 1 star to 2 as when it does work, it works very well despite having higher than ideal SWR. It won't fry your radio if you use it for listening and short transmissions... I didn't expect much for $10...but working antennas for a cheap baofeng can indeed be had for that price (I've never paid more than $30 for a 2/70 antenna)..but this one totally shocked me. I don't like to leave bad reviews, but this one is warranted as this shouldn't even be on Amazon. Feels cheaper/flimsier than it looks, if you could buy a ham antenna at the dollar store, it would probably work better than this. Does not work whatsoever on 2 meter, SWR is so high that I don't think you could put out so much as a call for help without frying your radio (plus, nobody would hear you anyways). As other reviews have pointed out, there is most def a short in the wiring right out of the box that causes your signal to cut in and out horribly (it doesnt get much better whether the cord is fully extended or not). It does work on UHF with a laughably slight improvement in signal. I was able to hear and hit a repeater 12 miles from me with this hunk of crap, but received terrible signal reports. If all you wanted to do was receive UHF in your local area - this thing will...work. The magnet is non existent so don't even think about trying to drive with this on your car without the included sticky pad (which all but ruins the paint on your car..not at all easy to get off). I wouldn't want to drive any faster than 50 mph even with the sticky pad. I had better luck (again, on UHF only) sticking this to an empty paint can in my living room window. For $10-20 more you can get an excellent antenna with a 25-30 mile transmit range..I only bought this for a work vehicle and wanted to save a few bucks - my bad, you definitely get what you pay for in this case. I'll keep it as a last resort, end world UHF antenna so that I can talk to the people on my block if needed, it is completely useless for anything else, save your $10 and buy something else!

Antennas work very well on vehicle. Increased range as opposed to just the antenna on the radio

Great vendor, fast shipper!

Seemed to work good.

Fantastic item.

The first thing to do is upgrade the magnet. Yes like others have said the magnet is pretty much useless. once you put a decent magnet on it, it works as a mobile antenna, and doesn't fall off.