Portable antenna id.

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garyser
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Portable antenna id.

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How can you id. what band a portable antenna is for? There are vhf and uhf antennas that look the same and are the same length. Antennas have no part number. Please let me know. Thanks Gary.
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A picture would he helpful, antenna's are color coded but there are variations in different product lines and some colors are used more than once.
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You need both the base color and length to properly identify Motorola antennas.

Astro / XTS / and others using the Jedi SMA type

137-174 MHz wide band 203 mm red
136-151 MHz heliflex 195 mm yellow
151-162 MHz heliflex 183 mm black
162-174 MHz heliflex 172 mm blue
380-435 MHz stubby heliflex 88 mm red (early 86 mm units 403-433 MHz)
435-470 MHz stubby heliflex 81 mm green
470-512 MHz stubby heliflex 79 mm black
403-512 MHz wide band 130 mm light grey

700/800 dual band flexible whip 178 mm green

806-870 MHz stubby 1/4 wave 80 mm white
806-870 MHz flexible whip 175 mm red
806-870 MHz elevated feed dipole 200 mm red

896-941 MHz flexible whip 160 mm blue
896-941 MHz elevated feed dipole 200 mm blue

XTS 4000

136-151 MHz 48 mm
145-166 MHz 43 mm blue
162-174 MHz 38 mm


SABER / MX (paint on end of thread)

136-151MHz 165 mm yellow
151-162MHz black
162-174MHz 152 mm blue
403-435MHz red
435-470MHz green
470-512MHz black
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Thanks for bumping a thread that was a year old.
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And why put up a thread reference when the thread appears right above your post? I don't get it.
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The cut and paste was out of date ... that's the problem when stuff is copied from a source rather than just posting a reference. The source updates and the copies don't.

The Interweb would be smaller and less full of out-of-date stuff if everyone got with that program.

I added some material to the original list (Moto website URL for part numbers and added a new 800/900 MHz stubby). I found this repeat post and rather than have to come back here each time I update the original post, I added the thread reference to make it easier for others that come looking for the same info in the future.
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