thanks Calvin
will contact WIMO
73,
Jorge
El mié, 26 nov 2025 a las 19:23, Calvin Starr (<calvin@kr5e.com>) escribió:
> Innovantennas are designed in England but WIMO in Germany manufactures
> and ships th Innovantennas. You might contact them, that is who I got
> replacement parts from last year.
>
> Calvin KR5E
>
>
> On 11/26/2025 3:43 PM, Steve Harrison wrote:
>
> > On 11/26/2025 12:43 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
> >>
> >> I emailed both support@innovantennas.com and sales@innovantennas.com
> and
> >> now answer
> >
> > Same here, no answer to repeated e-mails. My question had to do with
> > the fact that both the booms and elements of my 4-element 6M LFA-Q
> > "quad" antenna resonate when the wind blows, either direction, with
> > the boom plane or with the element plane. Obviously, I have to put
> > rope inside the elements and boom to tame that (as Hygain has one do
> > with the elements on their VB66DX 6-element 6M yagi). This is kinda
> > curious as Innovantenna's web page for the LFA-Q shows several people
> > with LFA-Qs sitting way up high on tall towers. I'd hate to have had
> > to hire a tower-climber to put the thing up all that way, then find
> > out the booms and elements bounce around in moderate wind like Twiggy
> > doing the shimmy way back in Laugh-In shows 8-P
> >
> > The instructions also did not state how far to insert the ends of the
> > elements. I was also furnished only half the required hardware to
> > assemble the two booms of my "quad" and I wanted to let them know
> > about that shortcoming; the manual is also incorrect on that count. I
> > had to buy hardware from my hardware store and fortunately, they had
> > metric bolts which are required because the boom is tapped for metric
> > bolts. Since Innovantenna products are European, they have an
> > obscession with metric hardware 8-). But Innovantenna seems to be
> > deaf. I didn't try DXE since they don't make the antlers, just market
> > them.
> >
> > As a positive aside, I'm more than happy with the performance of the
> > LFA-Q.
> >
> > Steve, K0XP
> >
> >
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Jorge
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