Both New Product announcements from September QST - p.41 Isotron 40/20 meter antenna that looks like a cross between a 1960's UHF antenna, a birdhouse, a ceramic coil from a BC-375 and a collection o
Pete, Nobody at ARRL looks at these before publication. The "New Product" announcements are manufacturer's press releases. The press releases go in an "inbox" and the layout staff grabs whatever they
Depends on what you mean by "works"... They aren't making any specific gain claims (and, wisely, they have no numerical claims on their website, so the FTC won't be hounding them), just that it handl
On the other hand, I submitted a press release of my LP-100 right after Dayton and I haven't seen it run yet. What's funny about it is that the original article describing the product ran in QEX, as
Jim, I'm sorry - because they can get this grotesque price doesn't mean that ARRL should implicitly endorse their doing so. As a citizen, I have other channels to rail against my government's absurd
Maybe down the road the NCJ will have an article on phasing this latest creation by Isotron... Best Regards, Jim N9WW James E. Chaggaris President PowerOne Corp. 1020 Cedar Ave. Suite 110 St. Charles
a ceramic coil from a BC-375 and a collection of leftover flashing material. Really, guys, are we supposed to believe this works? claiming less than 2:1 SWR 1.6-60 MHz. Picture looks like two christm
I don't know that it's all that grotesque. It's high, in a ham context (where people are proud of finding their antenna wire in a construction site dumpster for free), but I don't know that it's all
Well... not to really pick on you, Kevin, in particular, but since you mentioned it... I'm pretty sure that if you called up the QST editor and offered to do the review of the antenna they'd take you