I'm not sure what your project is, but that radio is very sensitive.
You'd be better investing the extra money in good low loss coas such as
9913 at a minimum or lmr-400. You have less loss on both receive and
transmit that way. I've had mine on a service monitor, and that receiver
is very very hot.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas