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Hi just bought a Wouxun KG699e and it comes with a wideband aerial .I havent yet heard anyone on it as i live in a ground floor flat in Kettering and even took it out mobile using the standard wideband aerial so my question is which is a reasonable priced handheld 4m aerial which performs well .... any help would be appreciated

73 DE M6MAL

I can't really answer that one either, as I'm in the same boat. I have had it hooked up to a mag mount on the car a few times, but local QSO's are thin on the ground, although there are a few local 4m nets which I am trying to perpetrate.

No reason why you couldn't try rigging up a dipole though, and hooking that up. I believe these radios are quite sensitive, based on reports I read when purchasing it. And a fellow colleague who also has one, reckons it is excellent, having worked some very long distances on it - again with an external antenna on the car.

I believe there are arrow-type antennas which are suitable for this, on 4m which might be worth giving a go? Cracking radio - but you'll have to stoke up some interest in the band, although I've found local amateurs very enthusiastic to use it!

i have a wouxon 2m and 70cm and rarely hear or make any contacts so i'm wondering if these wouxons are any good at all

you need to get outdoors. I regularly make contacts in excess of 10 miles range on 2m with my baofeng handy. the wouxuns are meant to be better. you may just have to keep trying.

maybe your right...just seems oddly quiet at the moment..maybe my settings are wrong