I, too, have had nice results in my dealings with CC. I put up a XM240 in
2002 and it went together as advertised and worked well. It was struck by
lightning at the beginning of this summer, and it fried the coils, the balun
and the coax (not to mention my FT1000MP). After taking it down and deciding
what I needed and wanted to replace, I called and promptly got someone to
talk to. All of the necessary parts were sent. The antenna is back up and
working nicely.
No complaints here!
Bill W5VX
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Doug Renwick
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:50 PM
To: ai4wm@yahoo.com
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chushcraft strikes again #$%^@^%^
Sounds like you are grinding that axe and nothing more. I have a CC
XM-240 and I am quite satisfied with the quality for what I paid for it.
The balun was crap, one mistake in the assembly drawing, but everything
else was excellent and it works. In my mind it is the best shorty -
forty ever.
Doug
"Those Island days are always on my mind,
Someday I'm going to leave it all behind."
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill MacLane
Sent: October 13, 2008 6:05 PM
To: Wayne Kline; Dino Darling
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chushcraft striks again #$%^@^%^
After spending most of my career working on commercial antenna products
I have yet to find any amateur antenna products worth the cost
especially if they are Cushcraft, Hustler, Hygain, MFJ, and several
others. I'm sure somebody out there may makes some good ham antennas.
I just haven't seen any worth what most sell for. Now I'm off my soap
box. I can understand your frustration. American quality has been the
pits for decades and that says little for .... well you know where most
of our things are made. Quality control has always been make the least
acceptable product for the most money one can get for it.
73,
Bill
AI4WM
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