This antenna is very directional and hard to steer unless you have a good idea where the signal is originating. For eliminating QRM it is superb. Just steering a few degrees off drops the signal strength to nil. The gain, however, is another story. After carefully aiming at a signal, I found its strength to be no greater than the IDC vertical. Sometimes the vertical would be even stronger and the copy would be easier even with the QRM I heard. For 15 euros I'd rather have a 3-elt beam - not as sharp, and single band, but far better performance.