Midland 6.6 dB Heavy Duty Bullbar Antenna with Spring Base and Cable [B]

This is the Midland MXAT04VP, the 47.5-inch 6.6 dB GMRS antenna kit built for reaching across open ground. The whip is heavy-duty fiberglass on a 1/2-inch hole mount, and the value pack ships with the antenna, an interchangeable stainless-steel spring base, and a 19.5 ft coax with a PL-259 connector. It tunes the GMRS band, 462–468 MHz, and works with Midland MicroMobile MXT-series radios.

The 6.6 dB gain trades pattern shape for distance. Higher gain flattens the signal out toward the horizon, so it pushes farther across flat or rolling country, desert, plains, and highway convoys. The trade-off is honest: that flatter beam can shoot over hills and miss rigs down in valleys, where a lower 3 dB whip radiates more vertically. Pick this one when your runs are open and you want the reach.

The spring base mounts to a front bull bar or any solid surface and flexes back instead of snapping when a branch or car-wash arch catches the whip. The base is water resistant and interchangeable, so you can swap to a shorter antenna for town and bolt the tall one back on before you head out.