ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144/430Mhz 28.3 Inch Foldable Antenna for Baofeng UV-9G?

[WRVE426]

Hi

I have a Baofeng UV-9G which I use a Nagoya NA-771G 15.3-Inch Whip GMRS (462MHz) antenna.

I am tempted to purchase a  longer ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144/430Mhz 28.3 Inch antenna.

Would that be a good choice and what difference, if any, could the ABBREE foldable antenna make for me?

Thank you

[WRUU653]

I have the same radio with the N-771G and found it to work well. The duel band would be a little better for scanning non gmrs frequencies but the Nagoya should be better for gmrs because it’s tuned specifically for it. I was able to hit a repeater at 14 miles (good line of site) with it. 

[SteveShannon]

2 hours ago, WRVE426 said:

Hi

I have a Baofeng UV-9G which I use a Nagoya NA-771G 15.3-Inch Whip GMRS (462MHz) antenna.

I am tempted to purchase a  longer ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144/430Mhz 28.3 Inch antenna.

Would that be a good choice and what difference, if any, could the ABBREE foldable antenna make for me?

Thank you

Because the Abbree is tuned to be resonant on the 70cm band, the SWR on the the Abbree will almost certainly be higher than desirable.  That means a certain amount of your transmit power is reflected back into the radio and less is emitted.  You might find that the Abbree works more poorly than the Nagoya, which is tuned for the GMRS band.

[WRUU653]

35 minutes ago, Sshannon said:

Because the Abbree is tuned to be resonant on the 70cm band, the SWR on the the Abbree will almost certainly be higher than desirable.  That means a certain amount of your transmit power is reflected back into the radio and less is emitted.  You might find that the Abbree works more poorly than the Nagoya, which is tuned for the GMRS band.

I defer to Sshannon and his expertise here, he won’t steer you wrong 

[WRVE426]

thank you all for that excellent advice!

[SteveShannon]

39 minutes ago, WRUU653 said:

I defer to Sshannon and his expertise here, he won’t steer you wrong 

Thanks!

30 minutes ago, WRVE426 said:

thank you all for that excellent advice!

Abbree does make a GMRS version:

ABBREE Tactical Foldable Antenna 18.89inch GMRS Antenna SMA-Female for Baofeng etc GMRS Radios.

https://smile.amazon.com/ABBREE-Tactical-Foldable-18-89inch-SMA-Female/dp/B0B1QK3YNW/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2KQ22EG0C4VGS&keywords=abbree+gmrs+antenna&qid=1669684037&sprefix=abbree+GMRS+%2Caps%2C266&sr=8-2#

I haven’t tried it so I can’t comment on its value.