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@N9KWK unless you're transmitting without touching the radio it's unlikely to make any significant difference. Some cases it will make the radio overload and effectively reduce what you can hear, especially if there are broadcast transmitters within at least 10 km from where you're operating, since often handhelds don't have adequate filtering, especially those models that operate across many frequencies.
That said, use any piece of wire clamped at the base of the antenna connector and test.
@N9KWK when you're using a HT in your hand, YOU (made of 60% water) are the "rat tail", so I doubt that an extra one will do anything significant to your ability to either receive or transmit.
@knowprose @dangillmor What's the alternative to Stripe? PayPal, Bitcoin et. al., surely not.
@fzer0 this reminds me of picking up a lost swan when I was about 14 years old. Everyone around me was panicking. I just gently picked it up, held its wings close to its body, ignored its hissing and walked two blocks from where I found it and put it down at the waters edge and stepped back. It looked at me, shook itself, waddled to the water and swam away. I'm still not sure if I was just lucky, or if people are freaked out by swans.
As an aside, there's a fan-made tracker here:
@sundogplanets not to mention the RF spectrum pollution which affects radio astronomy projects like the SKA and radio spectrum users across the planet.
