I Definitely agree, go with a commercial antenna built to perform for may years. Another good omni antenna is the ComTelco XL series antennas. I have several of these up and working very well in both VHF and UHF Ham and commercial.
Matthew Kaufman ...> wrote: Given that last statement, I suspect that it won't take long for the price of multiple G7-144s (not to mention the costs/time of repeatedly > > I use Telewave, with their generous amateur radio discount, at all my > sites and I've gone over a decade at some with no replacement required > (even the antenna that went through a winter tower collapse is still going). > > Matthew Kaufman >
