Pennant Antennas Up

Well, I've been sucked into playing with receive only antennas. I picked up a few matching transforms and resistors to build two pennant antennas. The antennas are triangles turned on their sides and with the larger end facing the desired direction. The pointed end has a 950 ohm resistor for terminating purposes. So far, I'm reasonably happy. I have one pointed NE and one pointed west. They seem to have directivity, but I really need a little more gain, so I'll probably come up with some type of preamp for them. My 210 beverage antenna seems to work a little better on 160..but the pennants work better on 40.