When old-school car radio antennas were a thing, you might have seen people with a tennis ball on top. Now they're less ...

The very long antenna used on some trucks is called a whip antenna, and these are commonly used for CB radios or other long-range communication systems.

PASSIVE WHIP ANTENNA PERFORMANCE A passive whip antenna is suitable for fixed monitoring, for example at a studio, or for off-air rebroadcast at a transmitter site. The recovered RF signal level ...

There actually is a proper, ideal length for a radio antenna, and ... Most shark fin antennae actually kind of compromise FM signals—an old school 1/4 wavelength whip antenna likely will ...

A blog devoted to General Motors trucks this week anwered a most intriguing question: Why do the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks still use a "whip antenna"? The answer was simple: AM ...