Topband: Amazing results with a single mobile whip!

[Fred Wagner KQ6Q]

Many thanks to the 35 stations in 14 states that answered me! My antenna - don't giggle, please - is a Valor PHF-160B mobile whip, magmounted on the metal roof of my mobile home. I found I could work anyone who really does have a 599 signal, as long as I wasn't fighting a pileup. (pileups on VE's and PJ2T).  On 40 meters, I've found that a hamstick dipole got better east coast contacts that a mobile-mast vertical, so I may try a dipole with 160m whips so I can get the high angle signals on 160 next time.
A really great contest - thanks to all!
Fred Wagner
KQ6Q
Cypress, CA