Carl, I have no experience with any antenna with the Baofeng modified SMA 
configuration, so can't really be of help that way, although I do have one 
of the lil adapters sold by w4kma, Importcommunications.com, used that 
adapter with a roughly 8inch very slim line triband duck type antenna, and 
the ant seemed to work a little better than the stock uv5r antenna.  HTH, 
Danny dyer, wb4idu
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Belanger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 8:29 PM
Subject: Quality portable antenna for two meters/440 mhz


> Hi,
> I'm looking to improve on the stock antenna that came with my Baofeng =
> UV-5R. I've been looking at the ones from http://www.smileyantenna.com =
> and http://www.mfjenterprises.com but there are a ton out there. So my =
> question to you all is, what antenna do you find best for portable =
> operation on 2 meters? If it works on 440 also, that's great but there's =
> very little activity on that band where I live. The only requirements I =
> have are that it work with the Baofeng UV-5r with or without an adapter, =
> and that it is usable while walking around.
> Karl=