{"id":2940,"date":"2020-03-21T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:42:31","slug":"tactical-vhf-antenna-test-march-20-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/tactical-vhf-antenna-test-march-20-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Baofeng UV-5R Tactical Folding Antenna Test, March 20, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ABBREE-42.5-inch-Tactical-VHF-Antenna-120x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3020\" width=\"104\" height=\"886\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>ABBREE 42.5 inch VHF\/UHF Tactical Folding Antenna for Baofeng UV-5R<\/strong> <strong>(with one fold. can double fold see pic in previous post)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Test of Tactical Folding antenna(self isolating in my car)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"title\"><strong>42.5-Inch Length ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144\/430Mhz Foldable CS Tactical Antenna for Baofeng UV-5R UV-82 BF-F8HP Ham Two Way Radio<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very good range for VHF even from valley bottom. Can hit repeaters up to 35 km away even over mountains.&nbsp; ZZZZZZZ Kachunk!  Worth carrying the 140 g for emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The usual 16 inch whip also does reasonably well on <strong>line of site <\/strong>even in the car. Hit repeater on Moose from high points on Highway 1 like Scott Lake Hill(~25 km) and hill East of Petrocan (32 km)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/B07STB8BD6\/?coliid=I1XNBEMALGN9S9&amp;colid=3TSJ6NZ0O54CY&amp;psc=1&amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it\">Not bad for a cheap antenna<\/a>.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBREE 42.5 inch VHF\/UHF Tactical Folding Antenna for Baofeng UV-5R (with one fold. can double fold see pic in previous post) Test of Tactical Folding antenna(self isolating in my car) 42.5-Inch Length ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144\/430Mhz Foldable CS Tactical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/tactical-vhf-antenna-test-march-20-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,59,32,93,181,27,164,8,10,94],"tags":[45,21,187,6,188,182,7,44,183],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-climb","category-backcountry-camping","category-backcountry-ski","category-camping","category-equipment","category-hike","category-mountain-biking","category-scramble","category-ski","category-ski-mountaineering","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-canadian-rockies","tag-climb","tag-equipment","tag-radio","tag-ski","tag-ski-mountaineering","tag-vhf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}