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Rudy's right. The Maxrad 5/8-wave is the best mobile whip money can buy. It's about $60-70 from Railcom (see ad in Trains), price includes tuning (trimming) to RR band. Ships in a sturdy tube which you can later use to check the antenna in as baggage when flying to a destination where you can mount it on a rental or other vehicle. (STA may inspect it, but won't prevent it from flying.) Tell Railcom what kind of connector you want on it. Mine picks up detectors 25 miles away across hilly terrain, locos 40 miles away across hilly terrain (no repeaters involved, and none of this "close to the track" business mentioned earlier), etc. As for those Radio Shack telescoping antennas for hand-held use, they DO dramatically improve reception over rubby duckies as long as you follow the accompanying literature that tells what length to adjust the antenna to for the RR band. When hiking over rough terrain or through trees/brush, I'll use my rubber antenna, then switch to the metal one when I'm in ready to set up the tripods and wait.
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