Chris:

I see you got lots of answers, but I don't think anyone mentioned the old WW2 approach. Back in the '40s, police radios
were on 1600-1700 kHz, and mobile antennas were bumper mounted 8 or 10 foot bamboo fishing poles wrapped close wound
with as much bell wire as you could put on them. And they worked amazingly well. I've never seen a shootout between
one and a good loaded whip with a capacity hat, but for whatever reasons, I suspect the bamboo pole would come close.
And it meets your other criteria, cheap. And which, now that I think about it, is equivalent to these fiberglass things
they sell for other bands now. Hmmmm.

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Anyone out there know of any decent solution to getting 160M working in
a mobile? The application is a semi-truck. I've got the Iron Horses for
75, 40, 20, 15, and 10M, but I'd like to work something out for 160
meters that will work on the truck.

I know I'm going to take an efficiency hit, but you're doing that for
everything except 10M on a Semi anyway.. Just so I can get a signal out
there to be heard, in the off chance.

ANY suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

73 de AI8W, Chris