Baofeng gm15pro shows long antenna included, but not shipped?

[Guest gman]

 

Has anybody else experienced not getting the 15" antennas in the box when ordered from Amazon?  

[TerriKennedy]

On 6/23/2025 at 2:14 PM, Guest gman said:

Has anybody else experienced not getting the 15" antennas in the box when ordered from Amazon?  

Those are likely Amazon Marketplace listings (look for "Sold by" on the product listing). There are good marketplace sellers and not-so-good ones. I don't know which exact listing you were looking at, so I can't check.

A 15" antenna is not going to fit in the standard Baofeng box without folding it, which will damage most antennas except for the "tacticool" tape-measure ones. So the seller would need to provide Amazon with either an oversized box with the radio box inside, along with the antenna, or securely tape the antenna to the Baofeng box and put a "Sold as a set - do not split" label over it. Both are going to drive up the seller's costs (for increased per-unit warehouse space at Amazon in the first case, or for a non-robotic handling surcharge for the second case).

You may need to do an "item not as described" return through Amazon. They will likely ask you to work with the seller to resolve the issue, and the seller may try to drag things out, so start the process ASAP so you don't time-out on the Amazon 30-day return window.

[SteveShannon]

On 6/23/2025 at 12:14 PM, Guest gman said:

 

Has anybody else experienced not getting the 15" antennas in the box when ordered from Amazon?  

Terri’s post nailed it. The only thing I would add is that when asking a question like this it’s helpful to include a link to the precise item ordered.  There are often several listings for each model, with listings by different vendors. Yes, you ordered “from Amazon” but it’s more important knowing who the actual vendor was. That also greatly affects the return policy. Personally I try to limit my purchases to Prime, but that’s not always possible. 

[LeoG]

Pretty much all my H3s came with 15" antennas.  They were flexible enough to be in the relatively square box.  They sproinged to life as soon as they were removed from the box.  No chance of kinking.

But I have no answer for you about you not receiving the antenna that you thought was included.
 

[WRTC928]

On 6/27/2025 at 2:24 AM, TerriKennedy said:

A 15" antenna is not going to fit in the standard Baofeng box without folding it, which will damage most antennas except for the "tacticool" tape-measure ones. 

This is incorrect. Almost every Baofeng I've bought had a 15" antenna -- not folded but bent around the interior of the box. I'm looking at one right now. Upon removing them from the box, they spring to life. In fact, they usually try to jump out of the box as soon as I open it. So far, I haven't seen one that took so much of a set that it wouldn't straighten out.

[OffRoaderX]

1 hour ago, WRTC928 said:

A 15" antenna is not going to fit in the standard Baofeng box without folding it, which will damage most antennas except for the "tacticool" tape-measure ones. 

This is an incorrect statement and @TerriKennedy should be ashamed for saying something so ridiculous when he obviously has no idea what he is talking about:

1. there is no such thing as a "standard Baofeng box" - i have, or have had, nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens), and they have a very wide variety of boxes.  Some of them plenty large enough to fit a 15" antenna in diagonally 
2. SEVERAL of those radios (and radios from other brands) have shipped with 15" antennas and they all very easily fit inside the smaller boxes, as @WRTC928 stated.

[WRUE951]

25 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

This is an incorrect statement and @TerriKennedy should be ashamed for saying something so ridiculous when he obviously has no idea what he is talking about:

1. there is no such thing as a "standard Baofeng box" - i have, or have had, nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens), and they have a very wide variety of boxes.  Some of them plenty large enough to fit a 15" antenna in diagonally 
2. SEVERAL of those radios (and radios from other brands) have shipped with 15" antennas and they all very easily fit inside the smaller boxes, as @WRTC928 stated.

So,, im one of those that as at least a dozen of Baofengs.  just checking my cabinet, i can see that Offroader is correct.   Baofeng does have a wide selection of boxes, even with same model radios..  Ranges from fancy boxing to plain cardboard boxes with Baofeng titles on them.  

[OffRoaderX]

1 minute ago, WRUE951 said:

i can see that Offroader is correct

Of course I am correct! How dare you have the insolence to think otherwise!

.. But..Yah..

[WRUE951]

2 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

Of course I am correct! How dare you have the insolence to think otherwise!

.. But..Yah..

I tried  

[TerriKennedy]

14 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:

This is an incorrect statement and @TerriKennedy should be ashamed for saying something so ridiculous when he obviously has no idea what he is talking about:

1. there is no such thing as a "standard Baofeng box" - i have, or have had, nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens), and they have a very wide variety of boxes.  Some of them plenty large enough to fit a 15" antenna in diagonally 
2. SEVERAL of those radios (and radios from other brands) have shipped with 15" antennas and they all very easily fit inside the smaller boxes, as @WRTC928 stated.

I was going to let this slide. But hey, it's Tuesday and I'm under my quota of arguments for the week so far...

1) It's Terri with an "i", short for Teresa. Which you'd know if you'd ever used any of my CPS programs.

2) Standard box size. Let's see. Here's a picture of 16 different Baofeng models in their boxes. I'm sorry I could only stack 4 high by 4 wide before I ran out of space. Front and top views. These are all single radios (which is what started this post). Obviously a box for a pair of radios, or more, would be larger.

3) "Nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens)" Yup. Riggghhhhttttt. I have 34 different models, all unboxed, right now in my line of sight, not to mention the ones in the boxes in the pictures. Nor all of the ones I've given away. Here's a screen capture from a Baofeng factory promotional video where it shows just a small part of their showroom before the image pans around and looks down rows and rows of different models on display.

4) I could probably stuff a small rattlesnake into a standard size Baofeng box. Neither it, a 15" antenna, or the customer would be happy when the box was opened.

You come along, all high and mighty with your proclamations here because you're a Youtube superstar with (as of just now) 266K subscribers and almost nobody is willing to stand up and call "BS" to your face. Well, surprise! Note that I only wrote this reply because you tried just about everything you could to provoke a response from me. Normally I'm easygoing and try to be helpful when answering questions here, without sarcasm or denigrating the other person.

Now, let's all return to our respective corners and try to behave civilly, OK?

[OffRoaderX]

32 minutes ago, TerriKennedy said:

almost nobody is willing to stand up and call "BS" to your face

More lies and misinformation Tammy! People stand up and call BS to my face every day.

[SteveShannon]

Terri, that’s an impressive stack of uniformly sized boxes.  At least through BTech, it appears that Baofeng has a standard single radio box.  That makes sense from a cost standpoint.  I wouldn’t want either a small rattler or a long antenna bent nearly double in one of those boxes.

Randy, let Terri be.  She’s one of the good ones we really want to keep.  She doesn’t come here and act like one of the several resident assholes we’ve had.  She backs up her points with facts, figures, and photos.  I have no idea whether the boxes you’ve experienced are differently printed but same size (as her photos indicate happens) or whether you have received 34 different sizes, but the argument isn’t really important enough to drive one of the good ones away. I don’t doubt that some sellers bend 15” flexible antennas to fit the boxes, but one time it happened to me the antenna took on a bit of a permanent arch. A friend gifted me a Wouxun and couldn’t find the original rubber duck so he bent his 15” antenna into the outer shipping box and sent it instead. 
The other time I received a 15” antenna it was in my packaged with my very first Baofeng, in a larger box with a “covert earpiece”, a PTT microphone, a charger, etc.  some of the pieces, like the antenna, were marked TidRadio, and others said Baofeng.  Perhaps some value added reseller put together a special package of accessories as so many on the Amazon Marketplace do.  
In any case, it’s not important enough to berate people over.

[Lscott]

6 hours ago, TerriKennedy said:

Here's a screen capture from a Baofeng factory promotional video where it shows just a small part of their showroom before the image pans around and looks down rows and rows of different models on display.

Wow! looks a lot better than my collection of radios stuff into plastic food storage boxes on a couple of roll-around shelve units.

[WRTC928]

7 hours ago, TerriKennedy said:

I could probably stuff a small rattlesnake into a standard size Baofeng box. Neither it, a 15" antenna, or the customer would be happy when the box was opened.

I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you are demonstrably wrong. I bought this radio in October for a project I didn't end up doing and it has been packed just the way I received it since. This is how the radio came with the antenna wrapped around the inside of the box. As you can see, it comes out of the box almost perfectly straight. I have gotten several this way and all of them lost that little bit of bend eventually. 

 

[WRUE951]

i have 3 5rQ's each one shipped with the Antenna laying in the box (top) diagonally across.   The antenna would not fit in the box placed straight vertical.  Each box is identical cardboard with Baofeng on two sides.  

[SteveShannon]

Getting back to the original post, it’s truly unimportant whether it was an original Baofeng box, an oversized shipping box, or something else entirely..  What’s important is that the OP must contact the vendor to get the antenna that was advertised.

[SteveShannon]

1 hour ago, WRTC928 said:

I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you are demonstrably wrong. I bought this radio in October for a project I didn't end up doing and it has been packed just the way I received it since. This is how the radio came with the antenna wrapped around the inside of the box. As you can see, it comes out of the box almost perfectly straight. I have gotten several this way and all of them lost that little bit of bend eventually. 

 

Normally there’s a product box that fits the white plastic liner better. See how there’s a sizable gap between the plastic liner and the brown cardboard box?

It looks like whoever shipped that to you removed the product box ( which is made of white tagboard and colorfully printed and fits inside the brown cardboard shipping container) and put the white liner with the radio in it and the plastic wrap directly into the corrugated cardboard shipping box. That may have been done to provide room around the inside of the shipping box for your longer antenna. 

[WRTC928]

2 hours ago, SteveShannon said:

Normally there’s a product box that fits the white plastic liner better. See how there’s a sizable gap between the plastic liner and the brown cardboard box?

It looks like whoever shipped that to you removed the product box ( which is made of white tagboard and colorfully printed and fits inside the brown cardboard shipping container) and put the white liner with the radio in it and the plastic wrap directly into the corrugated cardboard shipping box. That may have been done to provide room around the inside of the shipping box for your longer antenna. 

I have a half-dozen or so that came that way. I don't remember if the BF-f8hps were in a different size box, but they didn't come wth a longer antenna anyway. I'm not sure because I only kept the boxes for radios I haven't used. Anyway, my point is that if it was advertised with a 15" antenna, the seller certainly could have included one by one means or another. Thus, it's most likely that OP's radio was supposed to have one and it got overlooked. The antenna is so cheap to the seller that it probably wouldn't be worth the negative feedback to advertise it falsely.

Again, I'm not trying to show anyone up or be a . I'm just providing accurate information.

[WRXL702]

10 hours ago, SteveShannon said:

Terri, that’s an impressive stack of uniformly sized boxes.  At least through BTech, it appears that Baofeng has a standard single radio box.  That makes sense from a cost standpoint.  I wouldn’t want either a small rattler or a long antenna bent nearly double in one of those boxes.

Randy, let Terri be.  She’s one of the good ones we really want to keep.  She doesn’t come here and act like one of the several resident assholes we’ve had.  She backs up her points with facts, figures, and photos.  I have no idea whether the boxes you’ve experienced are differently printed but same size (as her photos indicate happens) or whether you have received 34 different sizes, but the argument isn’t really important enough to drive one of the good ones away. I don’t doubt that some sellers bend 15” flexible antennas to fit the boxes, but one time it happened to me the antenna took on a bit of a permanent arch. A friend gifted me a Wouxun and couldn’t find the original rubber duck so he bent his 15” antenna into the outer shipping box and sent it instead. 
The other time I received a 15” antenna it was in my packaged with my very first Baofeng, in a larger box with a “covert earpiece”, a PTT microphone, a charger, etc.  some of the pieces, like the antenna, were marked TidRadio, and others said Baofeng.  Perhaps some value added reseller put together a special package of accessories as so many on the Amazon Marketplace do.  
In any case, it’s not important enough to berate people over.

"She's One Of The Good Ones We Really Want To Keep"..........

WOW - Didn't Realize This Was A "For Approval" Forum Club.

This Is The Worst Response Post I Have Ever Read On This Forum.........

UFB..........

 

[OffRoaderX]

10 minutes ago, WRXL702 said:

This Is The Worst Response Post I Have Ever Read On This Forum.........

....hold my radio.. I'ma do something real quick....

[SteveShannon]

59 minutes ago, WRXL702 said:

"She's One Of The Good Ones We Really Want To Keep"..........

WOW - Didn't Realize This Was A "For Approval" Forum Club.

This Is The Worst Response Post I Have Ever Read On This Forum.........

UFB..........

 

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I hope you have a better day tomorrow. 

[SteveShannon]

5 hours ago, WRTC928 said:

 

Again, I'm not trying to show anyone up or be a .

Nothing you said has been offensive but I don’t understand why you don’t want to be an eggplant.

[TerriKennedy]

52 minutes ago, WRXL702 said:

"She's One Of The Good Ones We Really Want To Keep"..........

WOW - Didn't Realize This Was A "For Approval" Forum Club.

This Is The Worst Response Post I Have Ever Read On This Forum.........

UFB..........

 

I'm on here mostly to collect feedback on the BF-F8HP Pro, make sure it gets to either the firmware developers, BTECH support, or something I should fix in the CPS.
I don't have to be here. None of this "Brand Ambassador" stuff is in my job description.

I also try to contribute useful information, since I've been a GMRS licensee for quite some time, know what is involved in setting up and operating a racked repeater with a tower antenna, and similar stuff.

But enough about me...

I thought one of the rules for this site was to maintain civil discussion. I interpreted Randy's post here as both non-civil and a personal attack.

Anyway, this has devolved well away from the OP's 'I ordered a radio advertised with a 15" antenna and didn't get it'. Let's get back to technical stuff and friendly rag-chewing.

[Bogieboy01]

12 hours ago, TerriKennedy said:

I'm on here mostly to collect feedback on the BF-F8HP Pro, make sure it gets to either the firmware developers, BTECH support, or something I should fix in the CPS.
I don't have to be here. None of this "Brand Ambassador" stuff is in my job description.

I also try to contribute useful information, since I've been a GMRS licensee for quite some time, know what is involved in setting up and operating a racked repeater with a tower antenna, and similar stuff.

But enough about me...

I thought one of the rules for this site was to maintain civil discussion. I interpreted Randy's post here as both non-civil and a personal attack.

Anyway, this has devolved well away from the OP's 'I ordered a radio advertised with a 15" antenna and didn't get it'. Let's get back to technical stuff and friendly rag-chewing.

Not to poke the bear but YOU are the one that said a 15" antenna would not fit in the standard box, and severeal others have proven that to be incorrect. I myself have ordered several radios from baofeng and Btonera, all with 15" whips in the standard sized box, doubled over as others have demonstrated. Also the gaslighting of "i try to be helpful" right after being proven wrong?  The " holier than thou" vibe i get from this post has me one click away from the blocked list... just saying. If you know @OffRoaderX at ALL.... sarcasm is a thing, and all his posts that are not tech related should fully be read in sarcasm font... so dont get your panties in a wad.... 

[WRUU653]

Warning the following was composed pre morning coffee!!!

Kristonapony! I’m sure glad there’s people keeping up the fight on whether or not a 15” antenna will fit in a box and if said box is standard or not.
I was up all night worrying about it (was too). We need a slogan. Antenna Gate 2025? Free the whip? Feel free to post your ideas and be sure to pick a side.

For the record if I order something and it doesn’t come, I take the novel approach of contacting who I got it from and say excuse me, can I get that thing I bought. Amazon is pretty good about returns in my experience. 
 

Speaking of Amazon lol, I found this. I can’t say if it ships in a standard box or not. Who knew there was so much dislike for the eggplant that they have shirts?.

Affiliate link below? 

I now return you to the forum already in progress. Where my coffee?