I have a 15" whip antenna on my Yaesu FT-60; it provides better performance but it is really cumbersome to manage, especially when hiking around

for me the performance was fair the programing not easy sent it back, bought a Uniden its super

I was hoping for a little better performance over the stock antenna (knowing that the 701 would not be as good as the 771) and I was surprised when it was actually worse

They are as durable as they are tiny.