Throughout the contacts I have received high signal reports even though the bands have been pretty terrible of late. I have also made 80m QSO's in the evening with no problems what-so-ever. I have become 'addicted' to POTA lately and have made over 60 QSO's mostly on 40m. I have had this antenna on the air for a mere 5 days now and am thoroughly impressed with just well it performs. I thought at best I might get seven or eight years out of a vertical when I first started looking at the various antenna manufacturers products and your reviews, there is no doubt in my mind that short of having a Hurricane land on our front porch these antenna's will out survive me they are that good! 73's If you walked out and looked at my antennas right now you cannot tell the difference between the three antenna's! The quality, finish, and construction are unbelievable. I purchased two more of Tom's 43' antennas and set them 80 Meters in a equilateral triangle. I ran across some paperwork done by Bell Labs looking for a project to piddle with with the Covid lockdown stuff here in Virginia, Bell Labs hypothetically mathed out the equations for using two or three verticals in a phased array to generate Bi-Directional patterns and/or uni-directional cardioid patterns. Living in SE Virginia we have extremely high winds, salt water spray, hurricane force winds, etc. The antenna has always performed flawlessly. I have been using one of Tom's 43' multi-band antennas as a backup to my Windom dipole for many years, as many have stated the quality and workmanship of Zero-Five is un-surpassed.
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