What have done towards your prep?

[Highlander]

On either CT or one of the other Radio forums some of the chaps were warning about counterfeit Nagoya antenna that were very similar to the real thing, but were poor copies that could damage your handset so please be careful. I look forward to seeing your business expand.

Only one way to find out though! If it goes pop then they're cheap enough to replace and stick to the stock aerial.

BM, It isn't your cheap knock off antenna that goes pop it is your prized UV5R that will be rendered useless.

I dont think so SD, an antenna is just something that sends out a radio wave,... for a base station your comments might be right as a bad antenna would create a bad `Standing wave ratio`,.. and that could do damage,.... but I dont think it would make a great deal of difference to a hand held, it simply wouldnt work as well as you might have expected it to

Although I would be interested to hear an experts view on this, as I may need to stand corrected