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Shakespeare Stowaway Portable VHF Antenna - 5911
Item: #882840 | Part Number: 5911$68.99
Description
The Shakespeare Stowaway Portable VHF Antenna 5911 is a compact, emergency-ready solution when your main VHF antenna fails. This flexible, base-loaded 1/4-wave antenna mounts quickly with a suction cup and stores neatly in a weather-resistant tube. Designed for dependable marine communication, it delivers unity gain and easy deployment when you need it most.
Shakespeare Stowaway Portable VHF Antenna - 5911 Item # 882840
Description
The Shakespeare 5911 Stowaway™ Portable VHF Antenna is a base loaded 1/4-wave emergency VHF flex antenna to use if main antenna becomes disabled.
Features:
- Easily mountable in an emergency
- Packed in 12" weather-resistant plastic tube
- Flexible vinyl outer covering
- Velcro strips included for convenient out-of-the-way storage
- Supplied with rubber suction cup for fast, easy mounting to any smooth horizontal surface
- 2-year limited warranty
Specifications:
- Shakespeare Model No.5911
- Length: 10 in
- Sections: 1
- Color: White
- Ferrule: Suction cup for quick mounting in an emergency
- Cable Supplied: 12' attached cable
- Connector Supplied: PL-259 (installed)
- Band: VHF Marine Band
- Gain: Unity
- Max. Input Power: 25W
- SWR (Standing Wave Ratio): Adequate across marine band precise SWR depends on antenna location on boat
- Bandwidth: Not applicable to antennas of this type
- Impedance: 50 ohm
- Polarity: Vertical
- DC Ground: yes
Note: Antenna will read as "open" when tested with ohm meter.
Part Numbers for Shakespeare Stowaway Portable VHF Antenna - 5911
Reviews
Rated 5 out of
5
by
Anonymous from
Back up antenna.
Purchased as an emergency back up antenna. Looks and works great.
Date published: 2024-06-26
Questions
Will this Work as a AIS antenna?
Check the owners manual of your ais device. My icom ais says it requires 6db of gain antenna. This device is 0db
Date published: 2026-01-28