Truth about the stubby antenna

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All The Way

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Radio Rockatillo on AM is some good entertainment while cruising around Ocotillo Wells. I wonder if the stubby antenna guys even hear it? Also if you drive into a parking garage, or other low clearance area, what hits first, your antenna? Or your cab? I like having my antenna hit first if anything is going to. The more I think about it, a stubby antenna is a really dumb mod.

Tell that to the guys who have cracked windshields because the stock antenna smacked it.
 

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ohhh yea
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Tell that to the guys who have cracked windshields because the stock antenna smacked it.

Ah Ha!!!! I thought I was the only one this had happened to!. I couldn't believe it!! Blastin up the Alaska Highway this winter and antenna is gettin a little "frosted" and dancin like a wildman when all of a sudden CRACK that sucker hit the windshield and my under 4000km new SE is sporting a a map of North American road maps within two weeks. HA HA
Now wearing a stubby. I too wondered about cutting my original but wondered how much so it stayed "in tune" Re: frequency / wave / tuning. Is there a "base loaded" Am/FM antenna around?
Consensus is right though. With sat radio, 32gig thumb drive, CD... et al, I have enough music to keep me happy.... oh yeah, there is also that 6.2litre "boombox" up front that blows anything on the radio, these days, away.
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