Which radio do you have?

[wajski]

Skinny I had a 4' on top of my 23' Parker pilot house which put the tip 10' above the water about 12mi was the best dist. I replaced it with 5225xp 8' I can tell you there is a world of diff in 4' between a 4' and 8'. I was 5-6mi west of Rattle Snake on Sat a guy calls his buddy give location(cord#) I ask him to repete # he was 2mi se of Virmillon weather bouy 20+ mi from me.I have a Standard Horizion it's built into gps/sonar (cpv550) I have always had good service out of S/H. I have 2 Shakespear 1' extension if you need to raise your antenna list $40@ pm if interested. I could save time by saying go 8' if you can

[skinny5382]

I have 2 Shakespear 1' extension if you need to raise your antenna list $40@ pm if interested.

Thanks WAJSKI
I have on order the same antenna as your using. Should put me a total of about 12' above water surface. Plan is to try it out and go from there, but the idea of extension sound interesting. If I decide to go that route I will PM you.
Thanks