Super Antenna MP1LXMAX Deluxe Tripod 80m-10m HF +2m VHF Portable Antenna with Go Bags ham Radio Amateur

This antenna surprised me in so many ways. It was fairly priced if it is compared to others of this type but this antenna gets some bonuses. First, it is mobile, meaning it can go where ever it is needed or wanted. It packs away into two small sacks. One is round with a radius of just over a 9" and about 3" thick and the other carries the tripod. It is about 2' long with about a 4" circumference.The antenna set up very easily. I read through the setup instructions the night before and identified all the parts. I put everything but the setup instructions back in the bag and then read through the instructions for 75/80 meter setup and the instructions for the 40 meter setup. Including laying out the radials, the first setup took 35 minutes. Subsequent setups took between 20 and 30 minutes depending on how far I went in moving it into the RV the previous night.Changing bands is also a breeze. Setting up is easy but the setup is thought out before the first use. I expected changing bands to be more difficult, if only because there is the chance to become confused about what goes where when you change pieces that look very similar to one another. I could not have been more wrong. I saw that 40 meters had an opening and started the timer. It took less than 10 minutes to change the antenna and to tune it to the frequency I wanted. I expect that time to be cut in half with experience. That will be as fast as changing bands and tuning up at home.Tuning the antenna brought the biggest surprise. I read the directions but thought the company was over rating the tuned frequency range. Actually, they underrated it in a couple of spots. Tuning is quick and simple with the device included, I was able to operate the entire two weeks and made contacts on 80, 75, 40, 20. 6 and 2 meters through this antenna. I received good reports from almost all contacts.So I rate this antenna a five stars in cost, setup, band changing, tuning and in tear down which I didn't cover but it is easier than setup. I suggest a clean rag be kept available to wipe things down as they are put in their bags. Especially if they were subjected to early morning due as mine was each morning.My only complaint is I can't just take off in the RV as often as In would like. I am in the planning stages for a couple of trips to make contacts by transmitting from each of the lower 48. I am anxious for that to begin.

Relatively easy to tune. The chart is off a bit. Compact size and weight make this very portable. Decent tripod. I actually made more contacts in 2 days with this antenna system than I have with my base antenna in over a year! Works great once tuned!

Its very easy to set up. I hooked an antenna analyzer to it to tune it. I was able to get 1.5 SWR with the poor thing hidden amongst pine tree branches. Very restrictive HOA. On 20 meters, in the evening I was getting all kinds of QSOs. Alaska, Baltimore, Alberta, Texas, the Florida panhandle, Georgia and even a good contact with an operator in India. Pretty impressive.Edit: Continue to be quite impressed. Have DX’d with Lithuanian, ST Petersburg, RU and was getting a 5 by 9 response on 100 watts 20 meters. The more I use the antenna, the better it gets, consistently getting a 1.04 to 1 SWR using a Zoom antenna analyzer.

The set up is fairly straightforward. The tripod is lightweight, but the build quality is cheap. The crank handle broke after the first use. The rest of the components seem to be good quality.I bought this for ease of use. I wanted something I could easily put up and take down when I'm done. It works fine for 2m so far, but I get nothing but noise on HF. I can pick out some CW on 40 meters, but that's about it. It probably has more to do with where I'm setting it up rather than the antenna itself. (I live in a restrictive HOA community that doesn't allow permanent antennas.) I probably need to try moving it out in different locations before I render a final verdict.

I like the portability I like to build quality comes with everything you need to connect a coax and start making contacts.I feel the 2 m coil isn't as good as it could be but I've only had it about 7 ft off the ground SWR is around 2.2 with 2 m everything else is in the ones

I really wanted to like this antenna, but it just doesn't do the job. Been a Ham for 10 years now and have used (and built) quite a few antennas.It is definitely easy to set up and take down with a little practice. I tried and tried to tune it via instructions and it should have worked. But neither HF VHF or UHF signals were useful. And though external my antenna tuner showed SWR 2.5:1 or lower I just wasn't being received by anyone.This one looked good for both a portable when used with tripod and home based when used with a ground or pole mount. It got some good reviews, but also some not so good. No matter how much I tried I could not get any decent receive or transmit copies with this. Across the bands I got very low and uncopyable signals, while not 40 feet away my Hustler 6BTV was 599 with tons of contacts available. I made several on 40, 20 and 10 meters, including several CWs and my Hustler.Though I had hoped to be able to submit a good review, I will be returning this antenna.