[TowerTalk] Cushcraft baluns / lousy customer service
Rich Hallman N7TR
n7tr@rnodx.org
Sat, 07 Nov 1998 17:26:00 -0800
Save yourself alot of time and problems and get ahold of Glenn, K6NA!! He sells Baluns that REALLY work and the polarity is marked on EACH ONE. I have them all on my antennas here and NEVER have had a problem....
Sorry, I just dont trust the COILED COAX idea, plus its a WHOLE lot of extra weight and windload on the end of a 402CD antenna.
See Ya! Rich N7TR
Sorry I dont have Glenn's Email with me right now....Maybe someone else does....
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Richard Hallman N7TR N7TR@RNODX.ORG
11870 Heartpine St
Reno NV 89506 EX: KI3V, HL9RH
702 677-1106 A92FN, N3AMK
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 1998 9:20 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft baluns / lousy customer service
>
>
>
> Following the advice received here on TT, I called Cushcraft
> to order one of
> their MNXM baluns to use on my 402CD that I am stacking with
> a new XM240 so
> that the phasing and matching would be identical. I was told
> in no uncertain
> terms that they would NOT sell me a balun for the 402CD under any
> circumstances. I explained exactly what I was doing, and was
> told that they do
> not sell parts for "other uses" even if it's their OWN
> *&^%$&* antenna! You
> would have thought that the balun was some proprietary
> invention of theirs to
> be sold to the enemy!!
> I am really POed at the attitude of Cushcraft on this. I
> can't think of
> another amateur manufacturer that does not sell parts (for
> whatever purpose)
> to hams.
> It makes me want to scrap all of the CC antennas I have here
> (6 currently),
> but I'm frankly tired of doing antenna work right now...
>
> Any ideas on which way to go here? I wonder if I caught
> someone there having a
> bad day, and if talking to someone else at Cushcraft would help?
>
> Assuming that I can't get one of their baluns, what balun
> that IS available
> most resembles the MNXM? KA1CLX tells me that he has opened
> one up and it is
> built using 3 stacked toroids of unknown type with 3
> alternating turns of
> RG400. Sounds fairly simple. I'm sure someone else is
> building a similar balun
> that may actually consider selling to me!
>
> Tnx / 73,
>
> Will
>
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