N9TAX Slim Jim antenna for MURS/GMRS.

I got mine several weeks ago and have been using it on my Wouxun KG 1000G and KG 935G and this antenna is awesome and so easy to set up and use. It's built solid and pulls in signals way out there.

N9TAX does a great job with these. I have a 2m/440 slim jim from him; excellent quality.

Best review/demo of a slim jim. you actually showed how you have it hung indoors. thanks!

Thank you for the review of this Slim Jim antenna. Good to see the SWR results. Seems like a great buy for camping.

I have one now 3 years been very good it's mounted at 30ft outdoors.

I don't use MURS really. I guess I could, I just haven't really. But I do use GMRS and they make a single band GMRS (or 70cm if you want) that is made with smaller ladder line but is a full slim jim not the trapped lower section of the dual bander. So it does benefit from the "folded dipole" in that the emission pattern is changed. It directs the radiation pattern more level with the horizon instead of upwards at whatever degrees. In practice you get better horizontal radiation. Disclaimer --> I don't know I'm not an expert but this info is what I have learned from my Internetting today.

I'm going to put this antenna in my Oak tree, that is taller than my house for my Wouxun KG-1000G. I just ordered a Retevis RT97S I'll also put an antenna for use at home when I am not travelling. Will get a Slim Jim for it. Can't get my wife to use the base station, but can get her to use the HT through this repeater. (I've been testing with an inexpensive Simplex repeater.) Considering connecting the RT97s to the internet with Raspberry Pi. We will see. I also have solar/MPPT controller and heavy duty 3 X12V 110AH forklift batteries for storage.

Ordered one a couple of days ago

This antenna is getting a lot of attention on the Reditt GMRS page.

You can order one for just murs or just gmrs. Makes for a shorter antenna.

You can do this yourself... I made a rigid aluminum rod (stationary for the house). I will make a camping one out of the wire. It is bad that it is impossible to adjust to 2 ranges.73!

Does the MURS/GMRS pick up NOAA stations (162.4 - 162.55)?

Nice, wonder what the swr is on ch 6-11? Running the pipeline and the antenna on the truck is not that good, so something like that would be great to have. Oh,wait, sorry about that, business band, ch 6 (silver star 467.850) it's close to gmrs, even believe a few channels are on the gmrs band. Anyway, noticed the uv82, have you tested the swr on 467.850 or 469.550?

Does the n9tax come assembled or did you have to do it?

Can the antenna be bent in half and put on a standard window for better signal to fit on window square? Or will bending diminish signal?

Mine lost tune on MURS other than that it's okay

Is there a link on where I could purchase one of these? I would love to have this in my day pack.

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