I picked up one of the MFJ hamtennas the other day.
I got the 20M resonator and whip.
It's essentially a 4 foot long  poll with wire wrapps up to a loading coil 
near the top...then a 4 foot stainless steel whip attached on top.
the bass terminates in a 3/8's by 24 stud.
the whole assembly was pretty cheap so i figured i would try it out and see 
what sort of results I could get.
the shop didn't have any c clamp style mounts, so i'm fabricating something 
to atach to the balcony railing.  I picked up a bunch of 18 gage speaker 
wire to use as counter poise as well.
I've also got a maggy mount with a 3/8's female connecter that i'm going to 
try out both mobile and perhaps at home if I can't find anything adequit for 
a mount.
I know I can probably get one of the c clamp style mounts online as well.
so far, with the antenna leaning against the wall inside on the fourth 
floor, I am receiving far more on 20 meters than I was before.
I have the ground screw on the radio connected to the hot water heater pipe 
as a counter poise, but obviously it's far too long and not designed to work 
with the antenna...a few 16.5ft pieces of speaker wire should work well as a 
counter poise for now...attached at the bass of the antenna right at the 
feed point.

I also picked up a midland 18-325c dual band mobile antenna that i'm going 
to use instead of the current quarter wave dual band on the vehicle.
Hopefully that will keep me into the repeater more consistently than the 
quarter wave does now.

73
Colin, V A6BKX