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i bought this and it works great, 18" on the trunk lid

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=5815661 001


The advice of the full quarter wave ( just under 6') is spot on. This will
give you the maximum bandwidth and gain of any moble antenna you could use
at 40 MHz.

The above EBay antenna (even if it were set up for VHF Low, which it does
not appear to be) would be a real compromise in gain and BW.

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