[Governor Dinwiddie]

#9: "a little knowledge, some time, and some good old fashioned American ingenuity "

(totally agree with you—never used a "store bought" antenna.)

[usconservative]

I once saw a Chevy Cavalier covered with more than 30 magnet mount antenna's at a local hamfest.

I shook my head and thought to myself "it's guys like that who make the rest of us look like loons for being in this hobby ..."

My only two professionally made base antenna's are my Mosley TA-33 and my Comet GP-9 that sits high, high, high atop the tower and serves as my 2m/440m DMR repeater antenna.

Everything else: homebrew.