GRA-D220 Wideband Discone Antenna 100 to 1600 MHz Scanner

I've mounted this tempoarily indoors and am very happy of the improved performance vs. my scanner's default antenna. Night. and. Day. In fact, on the 2M and 70cm bands, it matches and aruably beats my well mounted diamond X50 for my transciever. Construction quality is great (no missing parts for me!) and the size is smaller than my initial expectation. Glad to buy something from Taiwan rather than China too.. Go ahead and spend a few extra $ on this; you'll be happy; this is a 'lifetime' antenna for scanner application.

I am using this with two uniden scanners, BCD325P2 and SDS100. This antenna allows me to receive Clear consistent signals from sources that I was not able to receive with other antennas. I use this antenna indoors and it works perfectly.

I assembaled this antenna in a few minutes, hooked up to my 536hp, and now the CHP frequencies come in loud and clear and overall recepition is greatly improved. I'm using it as a stationary antenna, and it's great for that application. If your looking for a great dicone antenna that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, this is the one.

I've been a Ham for nearly 50 years. I'm saying this so you know I have experience assembling antennas. I'm also retired from an Air Force Communications Squadron. Also assembled many antennas there. The antenna assembled very easily, until it came time to mount it. I have never purchased any commercial antenna that didn't include some kind of mounting hardware. Until now. The instructions recommended a Diamond Antenna BK10. Ok. I wish I knew this before I bought it, but I tried a search for it. The search results for "Diamond Antenna BK10" were 3 ring binders, HP Printer cartridges, some coax and even a case of water among other not veery useful items. I haven't tried to receive anything yet (not mounted). I'm stuck trying to mount this thing. I'll try searching the internet. For the price of this antenna, it should contain some mounting hardware or else say this is a mobile antenna and requires mobile hardware. Very disappointed about the lack of instructions. Who receives satellites or aircraft while mobile. I need to install on my house to receive satellites. Since I'm a Ham and Hams modify things to work, I'll find a solution. I'll add more after I find a mount for the antenna and can connect to a radio to receive anything.

I use this with a cheap baofeng in my car and works great. Appears to be very good quality! Have not yet checked if it's SWR is correct for the bands it said and will update after testing.

Reception from this is excellent, for the bands it handles. I put it on a magnetic mount and slapped it down on a metal balcony railing, then wound the cable from the mount around the railing. I'm feeding that into an RTL-SDR on a laptop and getting really good results. Definitely making me curious about what a full-size discone would give me. Unfortunately, had to ding a star because it was missing some of the lock washers the instructions called for. It should also come with a cheap stamped wrench to tighten the elements, at this price. I would get a pretty substantial magnetic mount if you want to use this on a vehicle in motion, and I would definitely use threadlocker all over the place. If the magnetic mount is strong enough, you might want to consider a neoprene buffer pad or something to help damp out the vibration. But definitely a good piece of kit, and if all you've been using are whips, I would order one.

If you have limited space and want a good scanner antenna this is the solution for you. Granted, It's not as good as other scanner antennas I have had but for the money you can't beat it.

Very happy with antenna and would buy again. I also purchased their portable tripod since I use it entirely port

This Gabil GRA D220 is a great scanner antenna , I know there are other discone antennas out there but fir the price and quality it really hits all the check boxes .I paired it with the G-Plus 15ft rg8x loss coaxial cable and have matched it to my bearcat bcd325p2 scanner all purchased from Amazon.ca . Please note you need a SO239 to SO239 adapter as this antenna is not the standard SO239 female connector . Also from my past experience, try to buy direct from Amazon.ca directly, I recently had alot of issues with third party sellers saying they have stock only to get an email that they are out of stock. Hope thus review helps , it is my own unbiased review. Overall a great experience. Cheers to all of you .

This is a high quality product and great value

Great Product ans performance!

This antenna did arrive with miasingy parts

I like the durability of it. It is being used for increasing the range of 2 scanners. The dislike is it is not easy to adapt to the scanners. Multiple adapters needed to make the unit function.