Rubber duck antenna for garmin

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walkin w/ some blue
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Rubber duck antenna for garmin

Post by walkin w/ some blue »

Have any of you used this antenna at all. I haven't had any trouble with my astro as far as losing signal and not gettin it right back. I was just wantin a backup in case i get in that situation that i need with those travelin cats that move to fast for my short legs. thanks for lookin and any input? And buddy anything you know about it would help
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Re: Rubber duck antenna for garmin

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I use an antenna from Smiley Antenna. It's about 9" long and is supposed to have a 3db gain. I don't know if it's all that, but it does work better than the factory one. It is very flexible and I'm very carefull about over tightening it to the Astro.

Here is the link:
http://www.smileyantenna.com/product_in ... ucts_id=31

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