It does quite well. Very happy with the performance and usually am heard in pile-ups. The first wire install path passed over the part of the property that I found out later (with a handheld shortwave radio) had the highest noise levels. Once the wire run was relocated to a different area, the noise level was significantly reduced.
Am running the wire SSE with the last 20+ feet in an "L" shape to the East. Hard to predict the radiation pattern as the coax runs 80'+ at a 30 degree angle down the roof towards the West then drops 30' to the building entry. Try to map that pattern on any antenna design software! LOL!!!
My only problem with the end fed was that it initially created some RFI. The coax is the counterpoise on an end fed antenna. Had to install 6 ferrite clip-on on the coax at the entry to the building to eliminate the RFI.
Also, as their instructions suggest, don't ground the balun match box lug if ground is more than 20' away as it becomes an additional counterpoise. Best performance and least RFI on my system is with only grounding the coax at the building entry bulkhead and not grounding to the balun match box.
I was concerned about running the counterpoise coax next to my BUD satellite actuator control wires, but no weird count errors or other problems!
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