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41. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Bry Carling AF4K" <bcarling@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:20:43 -0400
Kelly - I didn't say it was an example of what could be done now. However, I do think there is a huge gap in the market between the antennas selling for $2 - 3,000 USD and the ones selling for $200 -
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00131.html (14,814 bytes)

42. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Bry Carling AF4K" <bcarling@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:26:41 -0400
I disagree. You don't think I have a clue. I think you have less than zero clues. OK that's an imaginary number, but it's as laughable as this argument!! Those companies have been sold but they are s
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00133.html (10,655 bytes)

43. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:01:58 -0700
MFJ owns all those companies now, they are in a low wage area with no unions to protect workers, their products are widely seen as low quality. I don't know how they are for support. I keep hearing s
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00138.html (10,448 bytes)

44. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:09:05 -0700
I've considered buying a second SteppIR and stacking it. If I could rig it, I would. But I can't. :) 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _____________________________________
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00139.html (8,835 bytes)

45. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Charlie Gallo <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:11:14 -0400
You forgot one MAJOR cost - Insurance! Your antenna that you certified to have a wind loading of X, and a wind survival of Y comes down in a storm, or even worse, is on a tower that comes down in a s
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00140.html (10,204 bytes)

46. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Larry" <lknain@nc.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:25:39 -0400
M2 was derived from KLM which started in the 1970's. 73, Larry W6NWS I disagree. You don't think I have a clue. I think you have less than zero clues. OK that's an imaginary number, but it's as laugh
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00141.html (11,901 bytes)

47. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Don W7WLL" <w7wll@arrl.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:43:54 -0700
Don't forget - HyGain and Cushcraft are under the MFJ umbrella. Who knows how successful they would be as separate businesses? Larsen is a predominately commercial antenna producer. Don't know about
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00142.html (14,671 bytes)

48. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Ron W8RJL" <youngron@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:10:33 -0400
Jim, Yes, many refer to MFJ as Mighty Fine Junk but we can't all buy top of the line. When I was a 15 year old ham kid I would have killed for a Collins radio. The only hams in town with Collins was
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00144.html (11,883 bytes)

49. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:27:43 -0400
Based on conversations with engineers from some of those companies, that have been around for quite a while, it was a case being at "Death's Door" It was a case of being acquired or go under. This wa
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00147.html (10,544 bytes)

50. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Bry Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:12:35 -0400
Put em end to end and cover 160m to 6m HE HE. Best regards - Brian Carling AF4K Crystals Co. 117 Sterling Pine St. Sanford, FL 32773 Tel: +USA 321-262-5471 ___________________________________________
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00148.html (9,160 bytes)

51. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:39:45 -0700
the line. When I was a 15 year old ham kid I would have killed for a Collins radio. The only hams in town with Collins was the doctors. My Actually, when I was a 15 year old ham in 1967, I did have a
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00150.html (10,225 bytes)

52. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Bry Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 01:52:05 -0400
Conversely not everything that is expensive is superior. I asked a guy the other day how he liked his late model Maserati. I have always admired them. He replied that it was always in the shop for re
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00151.html (12,742 bytes)

53. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:13:50 -0700
And not everything that is cheap is OK. If you want cheap and GOOD, do the design, buy the parts, and do it yourself. Or buy quality used. My neighbor, W6GJB, has bought a couple of Force 12 C3s chea
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00152.html (10,088 bytes)

54. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:29:33 -0700
* Hustler is owned by New-Tronics Antenna Corporation, and their only HF antennas are verticals ... not yagis. New-Tronics is a small enough operation that I couldn't find an annual report for them.
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00153.html (12,816 bytes)

55. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 03:29:42 -0400
And not everything that is cheap is OK. How about inexpensive? I know it's semantics, but there can be a huge difference between inexpensive and cheap! <:-)) I recently saw a group raving about some
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00154.html (13,617 bytes)

56. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: KD0Q-Glenn <kd0q@traer.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:55:52 -0500
Got mine about the same time at Satterfield Electronics in Madison, WI. Sure was a step up from a pair of ARC-5s. Glenn - KD0Q (ex WN9QWW) the line. When I was a 15 year old ham kid I would have kill
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00160.html (10,683 bytes)

57. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:47:30 -0500
Again, bad example. Cushcraft designs date back decades, in some cases to the 1950s and 60s. The development costs are all paid for. As we have seen, and as much as some people choose to disagree, mo
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00162.html (13,020 bytes)

58. [TowerTalk] Antenna Choices (score: 1)
Author: jcowens1@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:48:29 +0000 (UTC)
The best antenna I have ever had is a Telrex 4 el 20M beam. If you can find one, buy it. It got me most of the way to #1HR in 18years. Nobody mentions the HyGain TH-11. I bought a tower which I had t
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00164.html (9,126 bytes)

59. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna Choices (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Baughn" <baughn@centurylink.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:18:29 -0400
John, You just beat me to the punch...I would also like to hear any input on the TH-11 if anyone has or has had one up. I have one in my barn hopefully going up as soon as things dry out a bit. I was
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00167.html (10,262 bytes)

60. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna choices (score: 1)
Author: Benedikt Sveinsson <benedikt@ok.is>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:05:41 +0000
I have some comparison I had a new model of the TH7DX on a 43ft tower for 4 years - bougth the antenna new from Dxengineering In Feb I got a Optibeam OB9-5 I really hated putting the TH7DX togeather
/archives//html/Towertalk/2015-04/msg00192.html (14,983 bytes)


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