This is my first time using a home made V dipole antenna. Although the quality doesn't seem to be that good. This may be because of the weather or because I somehow didn't build the antenna correctly. Keep in mind that I still use a Baofeng Uv5r and a phone to record. The weather wasn't great, with a little shower pouring down on my location, lot of fog and the average temp. was 4 degrees Celsius. Quite impressed by the range of the transmission being able to see a little of the NNE part of Africa and up to the Baltic Sea.