One of the frequent questions I get is how to upgrade the stock antenna on a handheld radio. Whether that’s for a higher standard of performance (most often) or in terms of durability when interfacing in a tactical loadout, the stock antenna often leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n
There’s many options for upgrades out there and I’ve seen and used nearly all of them, ranging from expensive Ham-oriented options (that often come up short in terms of durability) or tape-whip tactical antennas that mimic what we used on our Harris Falcon IIIs and MBITRs. We used to break those a lot too…and they wouldn’t be my first choice.<\/p>\n
The best option that I’ve found is the Gooseneck antenna – an BNC connector base, a flexible mid section and a rigid antenna section on the top third. It flexes with you when weaved in and out of webbing straps on a chest rig or plate carrier and is structurally very strong when paired with an SMA to BNC adapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Its a high performance antenna that will upgrade the transmitting range of any dual band VHF\/UHF handheld radio regardless of brand and the one I personally use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the frequent questions I get is how to upgrade the stock antenna on a handheld radio. Whether that’s for a higher standard of performance (most often) or in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":84426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[597,602,598],"product_tag":[521],"class_list":{"0":"post-83477","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-communications-products","7":"product_cat-communications-support","8":"product_cat-handhelds","9":"product_tag-gooseneck-antenna","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/83477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=83477"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=83477"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th.webtestsdev.com\/brushbeater-store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=83477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}