It's actually the AV-680, and all three eHam reviews describe major
quality issues.
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/10961
Two reviewers accordingly gave the antenna a poor grade.. The third
reviewer gave it a good mark because the dealer provided good followup
service although he had no other antenna to compare it against and fell
back on the invalid "if I can hear it I can work it" endorsement
regarding actual performance.
The only conclusion that can be made here is that three users had
out-of-the-box quality problems and that none of them were able to
objectively comment on the performance of the antenna. Without
searching for other reviews nobody would know if the quality issues are
typical or not since, as someone else here pointed out, people are much
more likely to take to the forums to air a grievance than express
satisfaction.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 4/9/2014 5:47 PM, john@iguanavilla.com wrote:
I was curious what this antenna is and google cannot seem to find it. Are
the poor reviews quality related or regarding performance?
John KK9A
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480
From: "David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
Reply-to: David Thompson <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:19:46 -0400
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I tried to convince Ray W5EW to replace his 6BTV vertical with a Hy-Gain
AV-480 but the reviews on eHam were so bad he has decided not to spend the
money. The 6BTV has 30 radials and does well in the RTTY Contests he enters
running low power.
How do we over ride the poor reviews from hams who probably have no idea of
how to set up a vertical?
73 Dave K4JRB
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