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Subject: [TowerTalk] Hi Bob Re: SteppIR
From: rlvz@aol.com
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:02:41 EST
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Hi Bob,
 
Sounds like you've had alot of problems with your SteppIR Yagi as I  have.  
If you have not done so, please complete a "Product Review" on the  SteppIR 
at
_www.eHam.net_ (http://www.eHam.net)  as potential buyers need to  know.  I 
posted my Product Review... but it's frustrating that almost  everyone give 
it a perfect "5".  The SteppIR yagi is a fine antenna when it  works but 
mine has caused me a great deal of grief: bad controller, bad stepper  motor, 
and an element fell off because the rubber boot didn't hold.
 
I'm hoping if more people post comments of their problems that SteppIR will 
 improve their product.  In recent years they are getting worse as more and 
 more of the parts come from China.  
 
73,
Dick- K9OM
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/22/2010 5:51:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
w5rg@yahoo.com writes:

Wilson..I have a 4 ele Steppir...If I had it to do over again..I would  go 
with the LP..Lot less trouble and ALSO MOST as good..I'll give you my  
Steppir..if you pay the crane fee!! Bob W5RG



----- Original  Message ----
From: Wilson Lamb <infomet@embarqmail.com>
To:  towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 3:05:22 PM
Subject:  [TowerTalk] Subject: Re: LP v SteppIR

OK, I'll say it.
It's no fun  for me to put that much "stuff" and money (StepIR) up in the 
air.
Yes,  I could "afford" one, but my ham fun leans much more to getting good  
results from less than stellar equipment.  If you can afford it, want  it, 
and can afford the repairs, by all means go for it.  But I think  a little 
more tower is much more appealing.  I suppose I have some  prejudice 
against 
"buying performance", where my own hamming is  concerned.  The only beam I 
have owned was a used trap tribander at  35 feet.  It did anything I asked 
of 
it, mostly at 100W!  If it  weren't for WARC, I'd do that again in a 
heartbeat, but the great  conditions and lack of crowding on some WARC 
frequencies has me looking at  log periodics.  Friends extoll the eleven 
element, but I'm not sure I  want to mess with the size, so may go down to 
six, which many reviewers  praise.  I suppose my ambition is flagging with 
advancing age (68),  even though I'm perfectly able to  climb.

73,
Wilson
W4BOH

> Message: 1
> Date: Fri,  22 Jan 2010 11:21:02 -0500
> From: "Gene Fuller"  <w2lu@rochester.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LP v  SteppIR
> To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics."
>  <towertalk@contesting.com>
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> It all boils down to the old adage  "different stroke for different 
folks".
> How many bands, zoning  restrictions especially re height, dollars, wind 
> and
> ice  conditions, reliability, avalability of local bargins, asthetics,
>  contests vs just x'ing, cost and reliability of cabling - RF, power  and
> control, and rotators, ability/willingness to climb, etc.   But remember 
> that
> for the average location, you will most  likely pick up more db's and new
> "countries" by putting a fairly  simple lower gain (4-6 db) antenna at 70
> feet than going to a fancier  higher gain (8-10 db) at 35 feet - if zoning
> will allow it. There  certainly are enough options available. And, as
> someone, porbably  wiser than most of us blogers once said, in effect, 
> "It's
>  most important to just make a reasoned  decision and get on with it.  
> You'll
> miss more dx with all of the interminal  procrastination than you will by
> lacking a few db's from your  antenna.
>
>

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