Folks, there are ONLY THREE eham reviews for this antenna. If there were 10
bad reviews from 10 different hams, I'd suspect the worse, but 3? The
AV640 is a similar antenna (doesn't cover 80m) and has 64 reviews and a 4.2
rating.
I browsed the manual and it seems to be a fairly complicated assembly, with
"capacity hats" for 3 bands. I can see where something can go wrong, but I
would never make a judgement on a product that only had 3 reviews, based on
those reviews alone.
73,
Mickey N4MB
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:09 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>wrote:
>
> It's actually the AV-680, and all three eHam reviews describe major
> quality issues.
>
> http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/10961
>
> Two reviewers accordingly gave the antenna a poor grade.. The third
> reviewer gave it a good mark because the dealer provided good followup
> service although he had no other antenna to compare it against and fell
> back on the invalid "if I can hear it I can work it" endorsement regarding
> actual performance.
>
> The only conclusion that can be made here is that three users had
> out-of-the-box quality problems and that none of them were able to
> objectively comment on the performance of the antenna. Without searching
> for other reviews nobody would know if the quality issues are typical or
> not since, as someone else here pointed out, people are much more likely to
> take to the forums to air a grievance than express satisfaction.
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
>
>
>
>
> On 4/9/2014 5:47 PM, john@iguanavilla.com wrote:
>
>> I was curious what this antenna is and google cannot seem to find it. Are
>> the poor reviews quality related or regarding performance?
>>
>> John KK9A
>>
>>
>>
>> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480
>> From: "David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
>> Reply-to: David Thompson <thompson@mindspring.com>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:19:46 -0400
>> List-post: <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.
>> com>
>> I tried to convince Ray W5EW to replace his 6BTV vertical with a Hy-Gain
>> AV-480 but the reviews on eHam were so bad he has decided not to spend the
>> money. The 6BTV has 30 radials and does well in the RTTY Contests he
>> enters
>> running low power.
>>
>> How do we over ride the poor reviews from hams who probably have no idea
>> of
>> how to set up a vertical?
>>
>> 73 Dave K4JRB
>>
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