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Reviews For: DIAMOND X-50 2m/440 ANTENNA

Category: Antennas: VHF/UHF+ Omnidirectional: verticals, mobile, etc

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Review Summary For : DIAMOND X-50 2m/440 ANTENNA
Reviews: 122MSRP: 99.99
Description:
Gain: 2m:4.5dB 70cm:7.2dB
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.rfparts.com/diamond/x50.html
# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
131224.6
W3ART Rating: 2005-05-05
Works great at the shore Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I put my X-50 up at 35 feet on a tower arm about 10 years ago. I live on an island with salt air and water all around. The X-50 looks and works as good today as it did the day it was installed. Most of the time I only use low power to work the repeaters I use. Several hams I know have bought the X-50 based on my experience.

W2NSF Rating: 2005-05-05
Ditto Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Yep!
Bought it.
Put it up.
Forgot about it.
Works all the time.
Looks good as new.
Other products should be so well-performing and trouble free.

Almost forgot about how difficult it was soldering up my very first N connector onto LMR-400! hi-hi
N3XKB Rating: 2005-05-05
Works as advertised Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I've had one of these up for over three years in high winds, ice, snow, rain, etc. Every year or so I take it down to move, and every year it looks brand spanking new. I live on a mesa about 7300 feet above sealevel in northern New Mexico and can hit repeaters in Albuquerque about 80 miles away as the crow flies. I'm quite satisfied. I run 50W on 2m, and 35 on 70cm with an Icom IC-706MKIIG.
KB1KVL Rating: 2005-03-12
so-so performance Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I had a 2m MFJ antenna before this & it worked well except I went from 2m to dual band. This antenna works 2m & 70cm, but not very good. I think it should do better than it does. My mag mount antenna in the car does a better job than this one.
ON7DCM Rating: 2005-02-17
on7dcm Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
It is a great antenna on vhf.Perfect swr between 144mhz and 146mhz. On uhf there seems to be a strange problem on my diamond x 50.I have a good swr on 439mhz but when i go to 435500 it is rising to 1.8. on 431700mhz( belgium repeater input) it's worse power drops from 35 watt to 10 watt.Changed coax(aircom again),n connectors,etc but nothing works.
EA4EOZ Rating: 2005-01-11
Simply the best Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I owned several X-50s through my 14 years of ham radio and all I can say about this antena is simply the best. Very efficient and quite small. Old ads claims 6/8 at 2m and 3x5/8 at 70cm, but this is not true: If you dissasemble the antena, you can easily see it is a half wave end feed vertical on 2m and 3x5/8 on 70cm, so do not expect more than 2.1 dBi on VHF.

Anyway, the antena is a real super antenna. I've used it extensivelly on VHF FM and also SSB, giving me very fantastic contacts over 500Km with tropo and contacts over 2100Km on sporadic-E (LA,OH,SP, etc). Performance on UHF is also excelent. I have recomended this antenna to many friends and all of them are also very happy with it.

Just a note: Do not install it with an arm alongside the tower or mast: 2m will suffer dramatically. Just put it at the top of your mast and enjoy it!

Miguel A. Vallejo, EA4EOZ
KC0GLA Rating: 2005-01-01
Great little antenna Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I have used this antenna on my 50 ft tower for 3+ years now and no problems at all. Works all the local repeaters on both bands. Will even work 2m simplex over 30 miles away. I have worked on some nights repeaters as far as 80 miles away. It also has stood up to 80 MPH wind with no problems where other antennas have not.
KI4HWJ Rating: 2004-12-27
GREAT antenna Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I put the antenna in the attic and i was able to get clean contacts with repeaters in nashville (which is about 50 miles from my location) and i was only running 5 watts through it. Extremely easy to assemble and very sturdy.
OH5HZW Rating: 2004-12-01
I can“t say nothing else...great antenna! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I have just bought x-50 and replased with Aerial commercial dipol.I can heard with my new FT-2800 rig many new repeaters.I use short,about 12m Aircell 7 cabel.Great combination!!!
Have nice Xmas everyone!!!!

de OH5HZW,Kimmo
KE7BIO Rating: 2004-10-12
Great for the money! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I've had this antenna installed on the side of the house, up at about 25 ft. for about a week. During this short time, I've been able to hit 2M repeaters at about 75 miles with an excellent report. Would recommend this to anyone looking for a 2M/440 base antenna!

73's - Jim