Hello All: Yeah 131 "You Know your Linears ah Hummin and ah Buzzin When" I read the news paper article.
Back in the early 70's I helped install a 102 SS whip antenna on a old 66 Ford Van for a friend named Frank. He had a two small tube amp and a stock radio, oh what a criminal. It got him out all over the place, he shoot skip and had a ball with it.
On a cold and windy morning in Sunland and Tujunga Ca ( above the San Fernando Valley) all the distinguished radio operators were having breakfast early around 7 AM as the strong and loud Santa Ana Winds were raging pretty good, keeping everyone up. We all left and went out own ways with the normal chit chat on the radio.
As I got home to my General Radiotelephone Radio and Mookraker 4 beam Antenna, I could hear Frank coming in over the radio talking about a police chase up Tujunga Canyon a windy road going up the local mountains. A few minutes later we could hear Frank talking with gun shoots in his audio as he was behind the police cars in the car chase. WOW someone said Frank you are genuinely crazy. Other Police Cars had Frank pull over and get out of the way. Why they didn't throw a net over him is besides me. But the Term "Crazy Frank" stuck. There are other stories about Crazy Frank, but another time.
The point of this all is that the 102 inch stainless steel whip on top a Van Works pretty darn good. You could ask Crazy Frank.
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert