[Antennas] CUSHCRAFT SAGA

Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:46:33 -0600

I have only been a Ham for jhust over a year now, but I have bought all my
antennas from a little place in Bloomington Illinois.
The guy that owns the place is a fellow ham, and does mostly commercial
work, but I have sent all my radios in to him for "check ups". Craig, the
owner is a real straight shooter, and I would place any of my radios in his
care without a second thought.
Kind of nice to remember the "little guy" even if we still are buying stuff
from the "big guys"
If anyone is interested, his website is http://www.twincitycomm.com
has a 800 # on it and the guy will answer questions, I should know, getting
ready to ship an alinco to him for repair, just bought it off ebay, have
called him 5 times in the last 2 days.

My Moto... Deal with the little guy, and let him deal with the big guy.
Forget about cushcraft, or any of the others customer support and give craig
a call!!

73
Ben Steimle
KB9YTV - Green Bay, Wi.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Havlicek" <[email protected]>
To: "Jim Clark" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'GoJolly'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] CUSHCRAFT SAGA

> If you're talking about a HyGain BN-86 Balun ... well, they've been
> known to BLOW UP .. happened to mine once on a 15m 5-el at 75' .. and NO
> EASY WAY to get to the feedpoint!
> If you decide to use that balun [it's 1:1], you MUST be sure NOT to put
> too much RF into it .. and you MUST NOT put the wrong transmit frequency
> into it, either!
> Good luck!
> Don
> N8DE
>
> Jim Clark wrote:
> >
> > I have been following this also and that is the main reason I bought the
> > Hygain AV620 about 1 1/2 years ago.
> > I checked the site with the diagram of the black box and it is
> > strikingly similar to the box on the Hygain.
> > I think I will take it down and take a few pics to compare.
> > I wonder if they would be close enough to use on the Cushcraft?
> > I have had very satisfactory dealings with the guys at Hygain.
> > About 3 months after I put it up I burned up the decoupling balun
> > (actually my fault I guess for running 1kw on a portion of 10meters with
> > high SWR.) One of the toroids fractured. One call did it. They did not
> > have the whole black box available at that moment to send me but offered
> > to send me the balun to replace myself and I did.
> > I was back on the air in less than a week.
> >
> > Jim, N5QL
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of GoJolly
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:50 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Antennas] CUSHCRAFT SAGA
> >
> > Read with interest the post today about Cushcraft being unwilling to
> > sell
> > components for the antennas.
> >
> > Personally, I would think that is a not so subtle message about what
> > kind
> > of company Cushcraft is.  Seems like time to deal with someone else.
> >
> > Bill K6ERQ
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