[pknowles]

I want to get a CB antenna for my trip to Nationals this year. Right now I have a hand held CB with a 6" antenna mounted on the CB. I'm going to keep the hand held because from what I have read there is little performance difference between a hand held and a professional radio, other then tunability. The performance is in the antenna. I'm thinking about getting a magnetic mounted antenna that I can put on the roof of the truck.

Questions:
1. What have you guys used and what to you recommend?
2. I know a longer antenna should perform better then a short one for CB freqancies, but how tall can I go? My truck roof is about 6 feet 2" high off the ground.

I'm willing to spend $50 if I can get something good. If it makes a big difference in performance I can go a little more.

[BigEnos]

I have a through-glass (think 80's car phone) CB antenna that seems to work great. I didn't want to have wires draped all over my truck so I went with something that was sorta permanent but could be removed fairly easily. Seems to be fine so far. I think it was $20 and I'm pretty sure they sell them at Wal-Mart, though that's not where I got mine.