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Originally Posted by WPJ
This can also un-match the antenna to the designed frequency and this will introduce a much higher SWR which can permanently damage the front end of the radio making it totally useless sometimes. But hey it looks cool cause the mil guys do it. Heber there radios are designed to tolerate much higher swr and when the blow the front end they just swap it out with antihero from stores ad have the original fixed. YMMV
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Note that most of the repro (AN/PRC variety) radios are basically the same as other Chinese programmable UHFs and those blade antennas are just a normal 4W/400Mhz antenna hidden inside a blade-style shell. Unless you're trying to mount a real PRC blade on a Chinese UHF it shouldn't be a problem.