I shook my head and thought to myself "it's guys like that who make the rest of us look like loons for being in this hobby ..."
My only two professionally made base antenna's are my Mosley TA-33 and my Comet GP-9 that sits high, high, high atop the tower and serves as my 2m/440m DMR repeater antenna.
Everything else: homebrew.
Obviously that’s not 440m, it’s 440mhz .... geez...
I have two professionally cut double bazookas set up in a sloping inverted V. By a lucky accident I think they are at a perfect angle for my signal to skip.