Hi Sarah.
It sounds like the slim jim could be a base or maybe mag mounted mobile
antenna, but far to big to attatch to a moving HT.
The connector wouldn't stand the michanical stress.
I don't know if your receiver is bad, or if there is an optional menu
attenuator that is turned on.
If the receive sensativity is actually bad, with the price of those Chineese
Ht's, kiss it good-bye and get a new one.
It would cost a lot more to fix it than to replace it.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Sarah k Alawami
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 7:44 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Slim Jim VHF UHF Antenna

I almost removed this thread to prevent over 12 thousand messages from =
cluttering up my inbox. Lol!

Anyway I happen to see this and am wondering what radios they would work =
on. I have a 2 year old baofeng uv5r whose receiver is crapping out and = am
wondering if one of these would bump up my gain and send a bit. I'm = still
just a tech so nothing to complex for me yet. loll!

Also would this be something I carry around or am I stuck using it in = one
place?

Tc and 73, and happy Friday.

> On Apr 28, 2015, at 10:25 PM, Oriano <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I purchased a slim jim antenna from N9TAX for about $23.00 and it is a  
>great omni dual bander. No problems with repeaters over 100k away. One 
>=
can
> build it using the following instructions:
>  http://www.hamuniverse.com/slimjim.html
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> or purchase one as I did from:
> =
http://2wayelectronix.com/Dual-band-2m-70cm-Slim-Jim-Antenna-dual-slim.htm=

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> I turned it into a base antenna using the following instructions:
> http://www.n9tax.com/Slim%20Jim%20Info.html
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> 73s
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> Oriano VE7 D Y Z