Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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Hi all!

I get with radio a little stranger antenna on 800 MHz band. It's marked NAF5058A.

Look on photos at Picasa album.

I never seen personally similar from Motorola: carton box, wave-like washer on SMA connector, round grooves at the bottom part...

MOL said:
Item Number. NAF5058A
800MHZ FLEX ANTENNA
* Item has been cancelled
This antenna currently available at eBay from panter88 only.

Question: It's genuine Motorola or aftermarket?
I am biggest fan of XTS2500 and ASTRO Digital Saber.
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Re: Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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All genuine OEM Motorola antennas I've ever seen for the high tier radios have "Motorola" VHF/UHF/800/900 molded into the lower end of the rubberized covering of the antenna. Even antennas for the lower tier stuff usually has the "/\/\" emblem embedded in the rubber. I've NEVER seen one that came with a shim washer either.

I believe what you're showing in the photo's is an aftermarket knockoff.
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Re: Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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That's an antenna for a Pro Series 800MHz radio. Unlike its VHF/UHF cousins, the 800/900 Waris portables use a SMA antenna connector just like the Jedi and XTS portables do. That antenna is more than likely electrically and physically (under the outer jacket) identical to a Jedi/XTS 800 whip.

For what it's worth, the OEM Waris UHF whip I'm looking at right now on my HT1550 has no markings or brandings whatsoever.
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Re: Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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akardam wrote:That's an antenna for a Pro Series 800MHz radio.
No. It uses the same connector as JEDI, Astro Saber and XTS.

Accordignly to some info from Google, NAF5058A for Nextel.
I am biggest fan of XTS2500 and ASTRO Digital Saber.
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Re: Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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MotoFAN wrote:No. It uses the same connector as JEDI, Astro Saber and XTS.
Reread my previous post.
akardam wrote:Unlike its VHF/UHF cousins, the 800/900 Waris portables use a SMA antenna connector just like the Jedi and XTS portables do.
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Re: Motorola NAF5058A 800 MHz Antenna - genuine or aftermarket?

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MotoFAN wrote:
akardam wrote:That's an antenna for a Pro Series 800MHz radio.
No. It uses the same connector as JEDI, Astro Saber and XTS.

Accordignly to some info from Google, NAF5058A for Nextel.
That was the stock antenna for the iDEN Lingo. As Peter said they are identical to the red end 800MHz under the jacket.

Jim
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