Tom Ring wrote:

Which means it was a colinear. It is long for a reason.

Similar antennas are vailable at CompoUSA and most other computer stores.

tom
K0TAR

What you should look for is small plasic-encased bumps (each enclosing a
coil) or obvious coiled sections spaced every few inches along the
antenna's length. If it has those, it's probably a collinear like Tom
says, and will be omnidirectional broadside to the antenna. If it
doesn't, and is just a straight piece of wire or rod, it's directional
nearly in the direction of the wire like Richard said.

Any reasonable sized coax will have a lot of loss per unit length at
that frequency, so do everything you can to keep it as short as
possible. Depending on the situation, putting the antenna might or might
not help, if putting it higher necessitates making the feedline longer.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL