broken cr8900 antenna

[KJ4SKP]

ARGHH! attempted to bend antenna back my Diamond CR8900 into original shape, then noticed that it wasn't bent but broken. Top 5" broken but held together by the "wrap" on the antenna. I tested it on 2 meters and it tx/rx OK.   Where am I going to run into issues with now a severed not bent antenna?

[KI4SDY]

Yes you will have issues! Better check the SWR on all the bands, but I figure the garage door has destroyed it. Don't burn up your transmitter!  

That is why I don't spend $100 for a mobile antenna. I use solid stainless steel whips and mount them so they clear overhead objects or can be bent over to garage. The closest I get to a coil antenna is an open air coil that is part of the main rod on my VHF/UHF antenna.  

By the way, you probably would have gotten more responses if you had listed your question under the "Mobile Ham" category. 

[W2TKW]

You will have issues pretty much guaranteed.  While your 2/.70 meter may be okay for now,  but the 6m and 10 sections are compromised.  Your SWR will go sky high shortly, if it hasn't already.  If you try transmitting with that high SWR the base coils will over heat which will result in you 2/.70m SWR going high also.  You also run the risk of burning out the final amp on the radio also.  Better to replace the antenna than have to send your radio back to Yeasu to have some transistors replaced.

I have had two of these CR8900 antennas and both died on me when the base coils quit.  How they did when I use a FT-8900 to feed it I'll never know. I guess they are not a rugged as they seem; unable to stand up to normal abuse of a mobile environment.

Since you will have to replace the CR8900, why not do it right and run a separate antenna for 10m, 6m and 2m/.70 m bands.  That is what I did, and I have been doing much better on 10 meters, having more contacts to South America and Europe in 3 months, than I had in 2 years ( including this past fall when 10m was wide open ) with the CR8900. I cant wait for 6 meter "season" to open up in April.