Base New Sirio antenna...can anyone guess what it is????

[M0GVZ]

Welcome to the Sirio Blizzard 2700 with anti-vibration ring.

If it looks very familiar to some that comes as no surprise. Yep....we have yet another repackaging of the Sirio 827 being released as a brand new antenna where all they've done is kept the same core antenna and made changes to the radials, this time taking the stock 827 and adding the optional anti-vibration ring as a stock part of the antenna. This makes what, the 7th or 8th rehash of the 827? We've had the Sirio 2012, the "new improved v2" 2012, the 2016, Tornado and probably a few others which are all the same core antenna but with either longer but fewer radials, more but shorter radials or those antennas but with plastic sleeves covering the joints.

Seriously Sirio, talk about flogging a dead horse.

 

[w9cll]

The market is drying up so they change the product to capture new money

 

[Highway Man]

At least they are making antennas.

 

[Slowmover]

At least they are making antennas.

“A rose is just as sweet . . . . (?).

I “get” the premise that the latest Ford Pinto now called the Mustang, has a different motor and cosmetic striping. But it still steers and brakes like before.

Nash is gone. So is Packard. Vauxhall. Others.

Would it have helped if, “the same basic antenna”, was presented with optional changes and each variation had its own name? (17) catalog listings?

I’ve looked over a unrelated product line recently where this is the case (model numbers) and ongoing manufacturing changes DO make for difficulty in distinguishing one model from the other.

Must be six variants at present. Performance and Cosmetic differences are mixed together. Not clear at first glance. Price isn’t much help.

“Sirio HF Base Vertical, Mod. 3, Mark VI”, might have been easier.

Availability IS the thing.

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[Handy Andy]

But Blizzard?

Ever been in one?

Unless it's DQ offering a new Dessert - it's kinda hard to get psyched up for an Antenna named "Blizzard".

Can barely see past the hood...

 

[w9cll]

At least they are making antennas.

yes anything that is being produced for 11 meter is a good thing for those who still operate there .

 

[Alexis Mercado]

I think it is a 827 with the Sirio Vector 4000 tip and the plastic ring included in one package.

 

[barefootindian]

The most available series of antennas.They have a big following here in the EU. Sirio get recommended because they work and also because most radio shops stock the brand.Other brands are stocked too but cb operators may go for a Sirio for convienence and reputation and affordability

 

[gamegetter]

looks like it's being marketed in name as the Blizzard 2700:
https://www.sirioantenne.it/en/products/hf/blizzard-2700
https://www.sirioantenne.it/en/products/hf/radial-reinforcement-ring

my old super maggie seemed to be quiet with it's cage up on top not sure if this antenna's cage will function the same.

they did a good job writing the description and I do like the cage but at last i'll wait and see what other's report on it as I don't plan to take my gainmaster down.