Avery W3AVE wrote:
Is that all it was?

For ham and commercial handie-talkies as well as hand-held scanners,
the Grove rugged, chrome, telescoping whip features a swivel BNC base,
allowing the whip to be used straight or turned to a right angle for
those special applications.
Adjustable length from 6" to 29" allows frequency optimization.
Quarter-wave resonance at VHF hi band, 3 dB gain or more over rubber
duckies at UHF. (Collapsed to 6" and straight, or extended to 29" and
swiveled 90 degrees).

Probably fine for VHF/UHF, but it may be too short for HF.

I also have an HF-225 (mine is the Europa version) and looked into this
a while back; I have not found an acceptable solution short of a
Miracle Whip antenna (a tunable 56" whip), which is expensive.

RK