I am a big fan of JK Antennas - my C3S-JK is an excellent performer. I had
several discussions with those folks before I bought my antenna, and have had
no problems that requires any support for it.
I am also a big fan of DX Engineering. I bought an MFJ antenna from them that
turned out to have some parts missing. When I could not get through to MFJ, one
call to DX Engineering support got
The missing parts on the way from MFJ, and they followed up to make sure I was
happy with the outcome. I would not hesitate to buy from them, and am very
happy with their support.
If you need support for the Innov LFA, give them a call. I truly believe that
with either vendor you can’t go wrong.
73 & CU in CQWW CW this weekend!
Jack, W6FB
> On Nov 27, 2025, at 8:57 PM, ARTHUR BERNSTEIN via TowerTalk
> <towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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>> 3. Re: Innovantennas contact (Calvin Starr)
>> 4. Re: Innovantennas contact (Jorge Diez - CX6VM)
>> 5. Re: Innovantennas contact (john@kk9a.com)
>> 6. Re: Innovantennas contact (Jorge Diez - CX6VM)
>> 7. Re: Innovantennas contact (Steve Harrison)
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>> 9. Re: Innovantennas contact (Jorge Diez - CX6VM)
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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
>> Message-ID:
>> <CA+h_a7+0_9cEnKu3eyssvyc=+++2+26L6uFFrLAYZQP=nt-L9w@mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> 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>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>>
>>> 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:
>> <CA+h_a7L=hk27+89j3uyi5-iHoPf8JgSO=QE0g9oYt0x_gXUOkA@mail.gmail.com>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> TowerTalk mailing list
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>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
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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
>> Message-ID:
>> <CA+h_a7+g0L2hxa82BPTyR7-EkfedtwB9v7N37rtZdmRFDJmSBg@mail.gmail.com>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> 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!
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> TowerTalk mailing list
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>>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 73,
>> Jorge
>> CX6VM/CW5W
>>
>>
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