Firestik Indoor CB Base Antenna

I get a 1.4 on my big tool bog. And 1.9 on my garage roof. It works for me.

I had terrible receive performance in my new location until I got this antenna. Now I'm getting signals on the first floor, that I never got at my previous place on the third floor. A well made product too.

Works very well for my application. Used for DXing on vacation 9 floors up in condo. Tuned easily and nice quality. Skip is up and picked up stations in Maine, NY, Ontario and Pennsylvania the other day. One heard me but couldn’t keep contact. Just fun listening with it.

I get a 1.4 on my big tool bog. And 1.9 on my garage roof. It works for me.

It's ok but as expected, the SWR is a high.

I have not received any of my order waiting on back order

I had actually bought this from a related radio site, so although I know I didn't give this site the actual business, I will tell anyone calling this a piece of junk to give it the benefit of the doubt. What do you expect indoors? No matter how good your radio is, it's only as good as the antenna system. Walls and roofs will attenuate your signal and no matter what, unless you live in a tent, your reception and transmission will always be less than a properly mounted outdoor quarter wave antenna or better. That said, this little thing works pretty decent for what it is indoors. It's not meant to replace your 30 foot high Antron or quad on a tower, but if you need a quick, easy set up that won't blow your finals and you just can't get an antenna outside, this is an acceptable substitute. Of course, you can use it outdoors as well as a portable set up given you give it a proper ground plane. I would recommend to buy it given your circumstances.

For what it is it's pretty good. Especially in a place where you can't set up a dedicated base antenna. The problem is is it eats up the space of a small Christmas tree and the coaxial cable is rather short. When I was using it I'd set it up on the patio and set the radio just inside the house. Would make a good base antenna camping. I'm not all that confident that an antenna a ground level is going to pull in that much range.

I wanted something simple to set up and something that could be packed up and set up in different locations. I spent the day finding the best place to keep it outside of my house where it's easy and safe for me to climb up and put it. I do not ever plan to use this indoors and I didn't try any indoor set ups, so I can't speak on how well it does indoors. My SWR is running below 1.2 on all 40 channels. I wanted something that I could set up when I am tent camping with my friends, then easily set back up when I get home. Having a base station in camp when everyone has a handheld radio is handy when communication over distance is needed. Like if a dog walks out of camp and everyone splits up to go find it (this has happened to my group plenty of times before LOL). Every time I tried a new set-up outside in the woods it has worked and measured stable SWRs.Then when I brought it back to the house it worked like a charm! My antenna placement at the house was picking up my mobile signal 5 miles away and I plan to keep testing how far away I can talk with people in my CB community. Right Channel Radio has done it again and they certainly will keep me as a customer!

Very disappointed with the indoor firestik.Going adivse everyone on Amazon not to purchase. Bought all the stuff for a home base CB, including the SWR meter. Nothing comes across the air.

I had terrible receive performance in my new location until I got this antenna. Now I'm getting signals on the first floor, that I never got at my previous place on the third floor. A well made product too.

Just got into CB Radio about 3 weeks ago. This is what I chose as my first antenna. Since I didn't want to drill holes in the house to set up an outside antenna I used this instead. With a 1x1 piece of sheet metal I've been getting an SWR of about 1.3-1.7. It tends to fluctuate a bit for no apparent reason. Last night was the first time I experienced excellent skip conditions, and I made contacts of ~900-950 miles to Ontario, Canada and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Needless to say, I am very satisfied.

I just recently purchased this antenna. It was a breeze to set the SWR around 1.3:1 on Ch. 40 and 1.5:1 on Ch. 1 with a decent DK. Running this as a back-up for my dipole antenna, I can't see 1kw running through it but easy 200 to 400 watts. I got good reports from locals all over 15+ air miles away with lots or hilly terrain. Also made some DX contacts. I do recommend this antenna although it is no where near the performance of a TRUE 5/8 wave antenna. - from Pittsburgh, PA

This is a well-designed and manufactured antenna. I gave this to my boy to use on the patio. I tuned it for him on his radio. It really gets out with only 4 watts. Make sure you use a top quality SWR meter and know how to read it or have someone who does tune the antenna. Great field day antenna, would highly recommend to anyone. Inexpensive and does a great job.

Ordered this antenna from this website. Great service here. Installed in the attic above the garage. Can't receive or transmit. Weak signal going and coming. I've read you need to install sheet metal plates underneath it if installed in an attic. I will not spend anymore money on this piece of junk. My radio is brand new (1week old) and has been peaked and tuned so i know that's not the problem. SWRs were high and i brought it down to 1.5 with no problem. I ordered this because of the reviews that said it was great. What a crock.

Setting up the antenna was a snap. Trying to get it to work in an attic was allot of work and expense. I read and watched the video and the setup might work outside on top of allot of metal and a great ground. I went to the firestik site and the section on the installation in an attic and they said you needed at least nine square feet of metal and a good ground. I used four(2x2) 24 gauge sheets of steel and 10 gauge wire to ground. With two sheets the best SWR was 2.5. With three sheets 1.4-1.5. Four sheets avg 1.25. Its working fine now.

I am very happy with the antenna; but why, oh why, oh why don't you tell people that you have to have sheet metal ground when you're putting the antenna in above ground attic? You need at least 9 sq.ft. of sheet metal. It would save a lot of people like me a lot of aggravation. It is working great and I am very impressed with it. I would recommend it to anyone who is not permitted an outside antenna.

I have had this antenna for only a week, but I'm so impressed with this product and would recommend this to anyone who wants a high performance indoor antenna.

This antenna out-performs any outside antenna I've ever owned with an SWR of 1.2:1. That is impressive! The only alteration I made was an additional ground(spiderweb) pattern on the radials which is connected to the base(ground) of the antenna, as well as minimal tuning of the tip. 5 stars!