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.

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.

I bought this for use with the home patrol scanner, it works great, and very well made

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.

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