At 09:27 AM 7/10/98, you wrote:
>
>
> Gentlemen:
>
> The X9 40 meter add on kit will begin shipping to dealers next week.
>
> Yes, as posted by W8EB, the 40 meter add on kit is a single element
> not two elements. As far as Cushcraft "promising" that it would be
> two elements - well, I am not sure what "promises" were ever made.
> Apparently Art made some statements about the add on kit being a two
> element kit. These statements were made by Art without him or the
> rest of our organization being sure that a two element kit would work.
Not so - your ad on the back of recent NCJs "promises" a 2-element add-on
for the X9 and a 1-element for the X7. It's clearly not just Art...
> I suspect Art had meant that a two element add on kit was our design
> goal rather than it being a promise.
>
> KN6DV posted the following statement - "Looks like ever since "Art"
> left Cushcraft all things went down and not like Steve Best has
> promised us." Actually, Will (KN6DV) nothing has gone down hill. We
> have and continue to make tremendous changes here at Cushcraft. We are
> extremely proud of the quality and performance of our newest products -
> X7, X9 and the R6000. Our organization is almost through its journey
> to ISO9001 certification which is expected in November 1998. Our new
> web page will be up and running before months end. Its loaded with
> information - new catalogs, answers to frequently asked question, all
> instruction manuals available for instant free download (no waiting
> over the weekend) and it will also feature our new TechExpress, the
> best technical support program in the industry.
>
> As far as the X940 being only a single element - our engineering
> effort was lead by Danny (T93M) who designed both the X7 and the X9.
> He tried to implement a two element solution but it was not
> significantly better than a single element and it degraded the X9
> performance on the other bands. We were not willing to make the
> performance sacrifice on the other bands and we were not willing to
> provide an inferior two element solution.
Gee, Force 12 can do it (C4XL). Now if they'd only get some customer
service...
(sigh).
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
In wild, wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia
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