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I wouldn't even bother. For local comms its not really going to be that much better and for DXing, for the cost its likely to be you can put up a beam. Even if the beam doesn't have much more gain the one thing it has which no vertical has is side and rear rejection so if you're trying to work a station in Asia for example, you don't have to try and listen through everyone else in CONUS to the sides and rear of you who are also calling.


With the UK being on the edge of the "wall of Europe" as we like to call the super loud Russian, Italian and baltic state amateurs in neighbouring countries who never seem to be anything other than at least 20 over, being able to drop their signals down 20 or 30dB when you're trying to work the USA is a godsend.