After 2 1/2 years, no malfunctioning problems here either, winter OR
summer.
Subjectively beats my earlier tri-bander beams without qualification.
Great antenna.
One has to use one to appreciate one.
73, Carl VE9OV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Fatchett" <w0mu@w0mu.com>
To: "'reflector -tower'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system
No problems here.
W0MU
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Katz
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:15 PM
To: 'David Robbins K1TTT'; reflector -tower
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system
Hi David,
Very relevant question, there.
My answer, thus far, would be "pretty much everybody" has had failures
with
the SteppIR products. At least, everyone I've spoken with who has
one.
Again, I've heard nothing but glowing compliments regarding service,
but of
course I'd much rather not have the failures.
Possibly some of the controller failures I've heard about are
lightning
related; however here in L.A., lightning is a very rare phenomenon
indeed
and it's common to go 6-12 months at a time without a single lightning
event
anywhere in the area. And the two failures I referenced occurred when
no
lightning had occurred in a very long time.
WA6DKN had to return his controller not once, but twice. He's on #3
at this
time.
WB2WIK/6
"Nobody needs more than 640k!" -Bill Gates, 1982
-----Original Message-----
From: David Robbins K1TTT [SMTP:k1ttt@arrl.net]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:27 PM
To: reflector -tower
Subject: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system
A sample of 2 does not a valid set of statistics make, unless that is
the whole universe. How many others do you know who did not have
them
fail?
As for the early failures... The phenomena of 'infant mortality' in
electronics is well known and documented. In any reasonably complex
electronic device more failures happen in the first few months than
just about the whole rest of the expected life of the device. In
many
cases there is also a sudden rise in failures after some long period
due to predictable ageing of some components... this leads to the
infamous 'bathtub' curve for electronics failure rates. High in the
beginning, low for a long time in the middle, and rising relatively
sharply near the end.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
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