another surprise, I could afford the big quad so choose this antenna based on my Royal Canadian Navy experience with large wire arrays, and it has exceeded my expectations on 15 and 20 and 40 meters, In the last two days conditions have been superb NS Result was 42 countries, wish I had figured it out in time for contest. Good long distance performance 4s7 over the pole on 20m ep3 on 15m vu2 on 15 zl NS VK ON 15