the xmit with it folded down, would be enough to pop the local mile assuming the swr doesn't peg due to reflection
folded down the right branch would pull it back up, if held down securely enough it would snap the end of the whip
* that isn't a 102, it looks like a 5 foot steelie, also they don't make 102's in fiberglass
word of caution when your whip is up
i run a 4 ft wilson flex on a crossbar on the forward center of my roof sitting still it's somewhere between 9 1/2 to 10 feet from the pavement at the tip, i've heard it rattle against the roof at duncan doughnuts which has a 10ft roof but the pavements got a bit of a hump
so far i havent shattered it, it's pretty tough, but it does flick the phone cable in the drive way at my moms which is 9 1/2ish feet off the ground or so, but as you know they tend to droop
fiberglass whips are more (if only slightly) resilient to contact with voltage lines (phone lines carry low dc voltage too)
steelies have no protection from such things, be very careful
i did smack a powerline with a 102 ran off the rear bumper in my cheyenne which had about 12 inches lift and it fused every contact in the radio
it's been awhile since the mil used AM , but not that long, i bet if ya looked hard enough you could find one of the vinyl sack covered 102's
hf antennas like what's in use now are a whole new sack of potatoes 
i quit runnin mag mounts when i drug one across the roof and even with the felt it peeled the clearcoat right off and streaked to the metal and most of the mag mounts are strong enough to allow the whip, steel or fiberglass to snap if you're going any faster than 35 mph but whips are getting better, i've had my 4'er bend over hard and touch my roof and it hasn't broken yet, any other fiberglass or steelie that i've ever had would have broken (because they did lol)
not downin what ya doin, just don't want ya to have one of those "DANG" I didn't think about that moments
my only other comment,
I think it looks good
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I had one on mine for a couple of months but it was just too problematic, so now I use a shorter antenna designed for the amateur HF bands - the antenna itself is about 36" long but with an automatic tuner I can work all bands from 80-10 meters including the 11 meter CB band. It's definitely not the cheapest solution but it works for what I want to do.
