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For decades people have put the the antenna under the vehicle...running horizontally and parallel to the ground. It will lose some long-distance power but it will work fine generally speaking and nobody will see it. In an automobile, your antenna works with one connection to ground (the frame) and one receptor pole. Back when AM radio was king, the antenna was much more critical, but with FM, an antenna can be pretty simple and still do a fine job. If a vertical antenna is important to you, you can also tuck one between the cab and the front of the bed so it doesn't show. The motorized hidden antennas were okay when they were made in the USA. Now they're pretty much junk. Good luck.