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I bought a Slim Jim from this guy. Seems to work good.
http://www.n9tax.com/slim%20jim%20info.html
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This same N9TAX Slim Jim is what we used for the Simulated Emergency Test I wrote up in another thread.
They simply work, and work well.
Picture this... you are in woods hunting, hiking, up to no good, and break an ankle. The little stubby antenna
of your UV-5R only gets out so far. Reach into your backpack and pull out your piece of monofilament and
3/4" nut tied to the end for weight, start twirling lit and toss it over a limb in a tree. Next hoist up the N9TAX
Slim Jim with 16' of coax, screw it onto your UV-5R, and now call for help, easily able to hit the area repeater.
And on 2 meters, antenna efficiency and height of antenna is everything, power is down the list.