Just installed one on my jeep. I have a bracket mounted in the rear tail gate for the antenna. On the bracket you have to sand it down to bare metal so the antenna obtains a good ground. I purchased a 3foot 1000watt fire stick antenna. Reason for the purchase was for my roadtrip across a few states and was going to expirence “severe” weather on the way, so I picked up the radio just in case for road conditions.
That is very compact. The modern radios are great from the purely communication and many features aspect, you just probably can’t do much work to them unless you’ve done micro-miniature soldering. The older radios are great for their ability to be repaired more easily due to the size of the components.
