I second your rant, Dick. I recognized the website when I went there today,
and remember it turned me off when I was there before. Never did figure out
the price, but one eHam review said about $500. I think they lose sales
with their coy tactics.
73, Norm - W1MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "RICHARD SOLOMON" <w1ksz@q.com>
To: "TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:52
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [ForSale-Swap] More Antenna Analyzers
>
> I find it very frustrating and annoying to go to a Web Site on a
>
> product and cannot (or with great difficulty) find the price for it.
>
>
>
> Are they ashamed for charging such a high price ???
>
>
>
> Those sites turn me off the product very quickly.
>
>
>
> --End of Rant--
>
>
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>> From: parinc1@verizon.net
>> To: rask1553@bellsouth.net; towertalk@contesting.com;
>> ForSale-Swap@mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:01:44 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [ForSale-Swap] More Antenna Analyzers
>>
>> On the subject of antenna analyzers- I thought I would share my
>> experience.
>> I have owned the AEA, MFJ259 and 259B, Autek RF-1 and the Timewave. All
>> had
>> shortcomings anywhere from inaccuracy to eating batteries.
>> I bought the RigExpert AA-200A a couple of years back and have never
>> looked
>> back.
>>
>> In addition to a synthesized source, it is a true vector instrument.
>> Extremely easy to use, allows for simulating different shunt capacity of
>> connectors, reads in graphical and tabular format and best of all is firm
>> ware upgradeable. Charges of the internal batteries seem to last forever,
>> it
>> weighs perhaps 1/4th of the MFJ meters and also allows for archiving
>> results
>> in the field and subsequent downloading to your computer via USB. I don't
>> see anything close to it for the price except perhaps ther AIM device-
>> but
>> it needs a PC to run it. Once you use a vector instrument- you'll never
>> go
>> back:
>>
>>
>>
>>
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