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Thank you all again for the input. I very much appreciate it.

Yes, thank you Admiral. Putting it on my roof peak will give me some lines of sight. The western sky should be pretty good, east and north will still have trees to push through and south isn’t as good as west but there will be a lot of sky there. There is a larger city with taller buildings to the north but I have hit repeaters within that city and beyond it with the HT. I am also near an airport so not sure how high I can go but probably can use a pole of some length. Thanks again!!

I live in a small city, about 26-27,000, in Southern Maine. My neighborhood has a lot of trees, houses and structures. We do have repeaters in the area and I can connect to at least 3 of them with a UV-5G Plus (2-pack that I was given for Christmas). One is about 5 miles away, another around 10 and the third, although hitting it intermittently, about 25 miles (depends where I am I guess so probably when I am hitting it it is closer). Due to being poor Tom, I plan to purchase a Wouxun KG-XS20G (ah, not the KG-1000G Plus), a power supply, base antenna and the paraphernalia needed (yes, good coax and connectors). The antenna will be on my roof but still surrounded by my neighbors trees, my land is pretty clear with lower shrubs and...stuff. I figure the radio and power supply are going to be around $328 with the governor's cut. I don't want to skimp on the antenna and paraphernalia but there is only so much money to go around too. So, after writing this book, in my environment, what antenna would you suggest?