The two most common antenna styles ... loop a picture-hanging wire through it and wrap it with tape for added insurance. To hook up the new cable, you'll have to remove the car radio.

[RadioHamGuy] posted an interesting video on adding a counterpoise antenna wire to an HT. He claims it will noticeably improve both transmit and receive by making a quarter-wave monopole into a ...

Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes, it isn’t practical. [Ham Radio Rookie] knew about random wire antennas but didn’t want a wire ...