Interesting after reading the comments on InnovAntennas. I am about to purchase
an Innov 5 element LFA from DXE. After hearing stories about parts missing,
metric hardware and inability to contact Innov ( I have in past, but not
recently able to), I’m thinking of purchasing a 5 element from JK since I’m
also purchasing a 6BA JK from JK (10-40 meters.) Parts procurement and tech
help is much easier from Connecticut, USA.
Ideas, opinions?
Happy Thanksgiving all.
73,
Art., N2KA
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:43:11 -0300
> From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
> To: Tower Talk <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
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> Hello
>
> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>
> I emailed both support@innovantennas.com and sales@innovantennas.com and
> now answer
>
> thanks!
>
> --
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:43:13 -0800
> From: Steve Harrison <k0xp@k0xp.com>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID: <bd5dfac5-1f82-4965-86ad-977f7822997f@k0xp.com>
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>> 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:19:45 -0600
> From: Calvin Starr <calvin@kr5e.com>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID: <d6f5a7cc-12ff-4a61-8f77-47e9379986d5@kr5e.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> 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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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:46:08 -0300
> From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> thanks Calvin
>
> will contact WIMO
>
> 73,
> Jorge
>
> El mi?, 26 nov 2025 a las 19:23, Calvin Starr (<calvin@kr5e.com>) escribi?:
>
>> 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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>
> --
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:46:59 -0500
> From: <john@kk9a.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID: <000001dc5f48$1adc9520$5095bf60$@kk9a.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> You could try emailing founder G0KSC. His personal website used to show a
> number of great Yagi designs that you could build yourself but I am not
> seeing that information tonight.
>
> I believe that DX Engineering is an InnovAntennas distributor.
>
> GL
> John KK9A
>
>
> Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> Hello
>
> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>
> I emailed both support at innovantennas.com and sales at innovantennas.com
> and
> now answer
>
> thanks!
>
> --
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:59:43 -0300
> From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
> To: john@kk9a.com
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> thanks John
>
> one of my 10 mts yagis that Justin built for me, the boom split in two.
> Half of the antenna is in the tower, the other half is in the ground.
>
> I will need to replace the Squad boom and the elements that fell to the
> ground and are completely twisted
>
> For me is much better to bring this parts from United States with a
> forwarder, just that don't know if this sizes are available in US
>
> 73,
> Jorge
>
> El mi?, 26 nov 2025 a las 23:48, <john@kk9a.com> escribi?:
>
>> You could try emailing founder G0KSC. His personal website used to show a
>> number of great Yagi designs that you could build yourself but I am not
>> seeing that information tonight.
>>
>> I believe that DX Engineering is an InnovAntennas distributor.
>>
>> GL
>> John KK9A
>>
>>
>> Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>>
>> I emailed both support at innovantennas.com and sales at innovantennas.com
>> and
>> now answer
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> --
>> 73,
>> Jorge
>> CX6VM/CW5W
>>
>>
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>>
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>
> --
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:20:10 -0800
> From: Steve Harrison <k0xp@k0xp.com>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID: <b1a1ef27-0059-45d2-a2dc-7b2aff3ee1a0@k0xp.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
>> On 11/26/2025 6:59 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
>> thanks John
>>
>> .........
>> For me is much better to bring this parts from United States with a
>> forwarder, just that don't know if this sizes are available in US
>
> Not commonly as they're metric. In fact, however, although the
> instructions list the boom - to - mast clamp saddle as "2 inch", it
> turns out that is actually a British "2 inch" and is really only about
> 1.945" diameter as measured with a standard, regular,
> international-measure (read: Chinese) micrometer. As a result, their "2
> inch" clamp saddle would NOT fit properly over my actual American 2 inch
> diameter mast, which measured 1.9985" diameter. I would have had to file
> or grind the stock clamp saddles to fit my American 2-inch-diameter
> mast. Instead, and since this was only a temporary installation for now,
> I had to leave off the U-bolt saddles.
>
> You can try e-mailing DXE for help; they just might be able to, or
> expedite the delivery of replacement parts to you; they just might have
> an "in" with WiMo directly. Due to our tariffs and all the complications
> those entail, however, it might be better to work directly with WiMo in
> Germany.
>
> Steve, K0XP
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:50:41 +0100
> From: Henk PA5KT <pa5kt@remijn.net>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID: <25b6556e-da96-40fe-9b06-c860ff0ce362@remijn.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> You might try Wimo in Germany. They produce and sell antennas from
> Innovantennas.
>
> www.wimo.com
>
> 73 Henk PA5KT
>
> Op 26-11-2025 om 21:43 schreef Jorge Diez - CX6VM:
>> Hello
>>
>> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>>
>> I emailed both support@innovantennas.com and sales@innovantennas.com and
>> now answer
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:13:41 -0300
> From: Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge@gmail.com>
> To: Henk PA5KT <pa5kt@remijn.net>
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact
> Message-ID:
> <CA+h_a7+UhCqqeSzchTHTCZekVO0MKuYF0ZXwH_KOWLPWpmeeGQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> Thanks all for the help!
>
> will contact Wi?o while waiting por Justin?s answer.
>
> I just need some parts to repair a damaged yagi
>
> Anyway will measure the half yagi that is in ground to see if I can find
> locally the tube?s sizes that I need
>
> 73,
> Jorge
>
> El jue, 27 nov 2025 a las 5:54, Henk PA5KT via TowerTalk (<
> towertalk@contesting.com>) escribi?:
>
>> You might try Wimo in Germany. They produce and sell antennas from
>> Innovantennas.
>>
>> www.wimo.com
>>
>> 73 Henk PA5KT
>>
>> Op 26-11-2025 om 21:43 schreef Jorge Diez - CX6VM:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>>>
>>> I emailed both support@innovantennas.com and sales@innovantennas.com and
>>> now answer
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
>
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