wooooooweeeeee........spin control at it's finest! :)
Somebody obviously put the cat out of the bag way too soon to have all the
advertising done for 2 elements. This should have been tried and tested
before it was printed for the general population. I liken this to General
Motors distributing sales flyers for a battery car that goes 1,000 miles
between charges. (suppose it could be done, but the drawbacks would be
tremendous)
I'm just glad I didn't buy a few of these and put them up on my tower
planning to upgrade them to 2 el 40's later on. I think I would be a little
unhappy too!
This just goes with my philosophy of not buying anything new until it's
been tried and tested by many. That way all the bugs and revisions/mods are
worked out beforehand.
73,
Scott
KA1CLX
At 12:27 PM 7/10/98, you wrote:
>
>
> To Will, Terry and the entire TowerTalk group:
>
> As President of Cushcraft, I try to avoid getting into all of the day
> to day details of things such as the content of our instruction
> manuals and web page. I do this for two reasons - one is to let
> people excel to the best of there abilities and the other is not to
> force my opinions on them. I quite simply did not realize that we had
> formally announced a 2 element kit to this extent.
>
> I also don't want to start blaming Art for everything bad that had
> happened in the past because he did a lot of great things for
> Cushcraft. He was solely responsible for the manual and web page
> content, however, I still stand behind my statement in the last
> message:
>
> "These statements were made by Art without him or the rest of our
> organization being sure that a two element kit would work. I suspect
> Art had meant that a two element add on kit was our design goal rather
> than it being a promise."
>
> I also stand behind the following statements:
>
> "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.
>
> Had we implemented an inferior two element solution, most users in the
> amateur community may have never noticed. However, that's not the way
> Cushcraft operates - period."
>
> Feedback is always welcome and appreciated. I will deal with any
> comments this community has to offer fairly and with honesty.
>
> 73
> Steve Best
> President
> Cushcraft Corporation
>
>
>
>______________________________ Reply Separator
>_________________________________
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] X9 40m add on kit
>Author: "Will KN6DV" <kn6dv@contesting.com>
>From: "Will KN6DV"
><kn6dv@contesting.com> at InterNet
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: 7/10/98 11:27 AM
>
>
>
>
>> : Steve 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.
>> I suspect Art had meant that a two element add on kit was our design
>> goal rather than it being a promise.
>***********************************************************
>
>Oh, it was Art than who did all the advertisement for a 2 element ad on kit,
>also there was/is a price tag for a 2 ! element ad on kit.
>As a mater of fact Steve, if you go to your web X9 web page it advertise the
>X9 with a "Optional 2 element a 40 M kit".
>
>""""""""X940 . . . 2 Element, 40 Meter Add-on Kit for X9 . . . .
>$340"""""""""""""
>
>
>I don't call this "some statements" or "design goal".
>
>Also if you look at page 1 of the Assembly & Installation manual for the X9,
>it talks about the ad on kit as a 2 element kit.
>
>Will
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>>>>>snip
>>
>> 73
>> Steve Best
>> President
>> Cushcraft Corporation
>> sbest@cushcraft.com
>> (603) 627-7877 x 302
>>
>>
>>
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