BINGFU Ham Radio Antenna Adapter SMA Female to UHF SO239 Female RG58 Coaxial Jumper Cable 1m 3 feet for Handheld Ham Two Way Radio Walkie Talkie Wouxun Baofeng BF-F8HP UV-5R UV-82 BF-888S GT-3

So, you're maybe a new ham equipped with that Tech license, a call sign, and a variant of the ever-present UV5R. You've discovered that sitting in your room using the radio's issued short rubber-clad antenna doesn't get you to the next continent--or even out of the house. Those of us living in a "holler" can't reach the neighbor over the ridge. You want to upgrade the antenna so you can turn your $30 marvel into a car radio or even use it as your base station. For now, anyway, it's your ONLY radio and you want it to reach on out. You need a device that adapts the radio's little SMA connector to a bigger antenna's feedline PL259 end. You need an SMA to SO239 adapter.First, any SMA to SO239 adapting connector lets the HT user upgrade to either a mobile antenna or even a base station antenna installed outside. Unscrew the short "rubber duckie" or the longer flexible "tactical" antenna, screw the radio onto the adapter's SMA end, screw the SO239 end onto your bigger antenna's PL259 connector, and your HT turns into a low power "QRP" mobile or base station. I reach a VHF repeater 60 miles away on 6 watts with clear audio. New hams using only a radio like a UV5R: upgrading your HT to use a mobile (a mag mount on a steel baking pan ground plane for example) would be a great first station improvement. If you can put up a fiberglass vertical--or build your own wire antenna and connect it, you're really doing amateur radio.There are SMA to SO239 adapters that let you get that HT antenna much higher into the air. But adapters (with no short flexible coax between the SMA end and the SO239 end) attaching directly to the coax feedline cause strain on the radio's attachment point and make it cumbersome to hold and use the radio. So, adapters meant to make your radio ready for attachment to an antenna feedline often come with a short run of flexible coax between the SMA radio end and the SO239 antenna end.Commonly, these are only about 6" and made with coax so thin that the connector may not be firmly attached. With moderate use, the connector may detach and would require almost micro-soldering to fix. Such adapters often come with mobile mag-mount antenna kits. They are handy, light, take up almost no space in your parts bin, and they work, but they are too underbuilt to be optimal. Having had one of the flimsier, shorter adapters come apart in my hand, I looked for the solution I would fabricate at my workbench and found that Bingfu already offered it for a modest price.The Bingfu adapter using RG58 coax fixes the design problems. RG58 is sturdy but flexible. The greater diameter of RG58 makes for a durable attachment of the connectors at each end. The greater length facilitates handheld use less constrained by the feedline's stiffness and puts less strain on the radio's attachment point. Were the Bingfu's RG58 line longer, its added weight might strain the SMA connection point and eventually cause a short at the radio.I suspect that the RG58 adapters reduce power loss and RF noise, too.I highly recommend that you replace your short, thin, SMA to SO239 adapters with this one made from RG58. In fact, I'm ordering another right now to make sure there's one handy.

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This the antenna adapter you’re looking for for, especially for a Baofeeng radio paired to a coax cable. The other brands I tried pulled apart, often on the first use.

No strain on either end.. perfect

great quality product