It will make sense when you have the antenna and that cable in your hand, You unscrew the big part from the cable fitting and put the little part of the fitting up through the hole in the roof and screw the big part back on, that holds it to the roof. Then the antenna will screw onto that big part.
I received a couple Midland HTs as a service award from work. Not sure what I was going to do with them, thought they may come in handy for something someday. After watching a few videos online even though I prefer solo camping, hiking and fishing I decided having an additional way to communicate wasn't a bad idea. I bought a Radioddity DB20-G for the Jeep and figured I might as well spend the $35.00 on a license and be legal.
If there is repeater local to me would I be able to hear someone transmitting if I was tuned to that frequency without having programmed in dpl/ctss or any of the other stuff I haven't wrapped my head around yet?