Maco Alpha V 5/8 Base Antenna

I live about 20 miles northeast of Pensacola, in the Florida panhandle in the town of Milton. When Hurricane Dennis went over our home in 2005, it did something that Ivan, Erin, and Opal, (other hurricanes that bore-sighted our home over the years) couldn't do? Dennis packed extremely strong, and sustained winds of well over 100 miles per hour and twisted my beloved AV58 around like a pretzel. That AV58's home was about 45 feet up, connected to a 20-foot galvanized pole locked in the top of a 10-foot section of Ron 25 tower with a nose cone. You may find this difficult to fathom, but I talked "barefoot," on 38 LSB around the world to places such as Tasmani, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Hawaii and the majority of North, Central, and South America. Granted, I realize that the atmospherics had to be, and were, ideal, for "DXing" that long a distance. I recently purchased my 2nd AV58 from y'all and am expecting delivery any day now. I have a Hustler II on a pole alongside my radio room about 38-feet up and all I will say is, I want an AV58 back up for talking to "wherever" it reaches out and touches someone. The Hustler II is great for talking with local cronies," but for the real long distance talking, I don't think that you can beat the AV58 for the price, quality, materials that it's constructed from, workmanship, and performance. A "great," dependable base antenna.