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

Gary J - N5BAA qltfnish at omniglobal.net
Mon Sep 22 19:25:28 EDT 2014


John,

The process change I am sure is to save $$$ - most are.  What would have 
been nice would have been for them to tell us in advance they have changed 
the process and at the same time modify their manual(s) to account for the 
new process.

Gary J
N5BAA

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Canfield
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:32 PM
To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [HCARC] Successful Antenna Raising And Special Thanks To Club 
Member

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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