broken antenna

For past few months the scanner sometimes shows no signal bars while on my SDS200 I hear activity. I try to turn it off on and reconnect the antenna and sometimes it works but sometimes I still hear nothing then I suddenly start hearing activity. One day I removed the antenna and something came...

I had a 5/8 30 inch UHF antenna mounted on my car. Its a 5.5 db gain antenna with two coils and I just noticed as I got home that the top part is missing. It must've gotten loose and detached from the top coil while I was driving. This antenna is used for recieve only, no transmiting and...