[HCARC] Successful Antenna Raising And Special Thanks To Club Member

John Canfield bucket at janeandjohn.org
Mon Sep 22 17:32:48 EDT 2014


Ah, that explains it!  A process change for the worse.

On 9/22/2014 4:16 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote:
> No John - 5BTV is not more cantankerous - it's a 4BTV with an added 80 
> meter resonator at the top.  What is more "cantankerous" is when 
> New-Tronics used to sell the antennas direct they pre-tuned the 
> antenna pretty well before they shipped it to you.  Now that they sell 
> via DX Engineering, they have skipped the tuning at the factory (cost 
> of labor) and they just put it together and send it to DX Engineering.



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