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[TowerTalk] Innovantennas. Just say no.

To: n2ka@verizon.net, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Innovantennas. Just say no.
From: Gary Johnson via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Gary Johnson <gwj@me.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:33:45 -0800
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What brand to choose? I’ve been holding my tongue for a long time but here 
goes. The answer is in this evidence: My direct observation of 10 Innovantenna 
Yagis with 10 complete failures. No, make that 11/10 after one boom broke for 
the second time. And have you ever heard of a boom bending and failing 
SIDEWAYS? Ask W6TCP, who had four 22 element 2m X-pols do exactly that. Then 
his quad 70cm array had 2 booms break and a glorious scattering of elements on 
the ground. And two 6m LFAs with snapped booms. What a bunch of junk. BTW I got 
$8 at the scrap dealer for a 5L 6m.

Now it’s JK all the time. Or M Squared if JK doesn’t offer it. Some models from 
Antennas-Amplifiers are also ok but others have crappy boom couplings. Square 
metric tubing. No thank you.

Gary NA6O  
gwj@me.com
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