[backwoods-engineer]

Sure. You'll need an adapter from MCX to PL-259/SO-239.

If you're comparing it to the Flex Radio, though, the $15 dongle is going to come up a little short.

[usconservative]

I'm not looking to replace my FlexRadio with the $15 dongle. The FlexRadio is going to replace my aging HF station (a Kenwood 940SAT and a Kenwood TS-2000 that I'm very unhappy with.)

I'm more interested in the dongle as something to toy around with and potentially give to an elderly friend of mine to give him something to listen to. He's a stroke victim but can operate a computer and has a wire in the air. He's been unable to make much use of his police scanner since many of the local PD's have gone to digital trunking. I'll use two of these dongles for that.

Really appreciate you posting all the information you did --- if you have an Amateur Operators/Ham Radio ping list would you please add me to it?