Oh, I see what he might be talking about, now!!! I took my stock antenna off the first week I bought my Ranger new. I put one of those small flexible ones on. It also keeps jerks from bending your stock way too tall antenna!!! One day at our Publix Grocery store I saw three trucks (two Rangers and one Dodge) that all had their stock antennas bent over by jerks. I don't know it it happened in the Publix parking lot or not..but one of the trucks antenna looked like it had been that way for sometime!!! Darn vandals!!!!!