I recently retired my circa 1970's Radio shack archer crossbow .64 wave antenna with a IMAX 2000. Seeing since this is my third base antenna since 1996. ive noticed a gain in DB with the imax, and i can really reach out (barefoot). Just my luck i put the antenna up and got 3 days use out of it and the DX conditions fell right out for a month straight. But during those 3 days i made alot of contacts and i am very pleased with it.