[TowerTalk] Coax Switches, Fritzel antenna update

[Joel]

Actually, I signed up to be the exclusive  US distributor for  Hofi (Horst)
while attending the Friedrichschafen  show a few months ago. We are waiting for
the return contract and will start advertising nationally.  Announcments will be
made on our FIRST CALL COMMUNICATIONS webpage   www.firstcallcom.net

Regards, Joel
FIRST CALL COMMUNICATIONS  INC.

thompson@mindspring.com wrote:

> Those of you in Europe can still get those HOFI coax switches.  There is
> practically no loss on 10 meters and the isolation even on 160 is not
> measurable.  This means that just using a HOFI switch on HF or 160 a gain of
> 1DB can be obtained easily over say a BW coax or similiar switch.   I sold
> them thru my company Resource Solutions and helped the USA distributor,
> Electronic Switch (ESCO) sell them at Dayton.  We sold a large quantity of
> them to hams all over the world.  The owner of HOFI was hard to deal with
> and we finally had to drop selling them.  HFI was making five position PL259
> and N connector models plus a great remote version.
>
> Some of you in Europe know this but Kurt Fritzel, the owner of Fritzel
> antennas past away last year and his son did not seem interested in
> maintaining the amateur division.  They used high quality parts for the
> beams, verticals, and the famous FD-4 and 3 wire antennas.  About 400 FD-4's
> were sold by ESCO directly and thru dealers like HRO and Universal.  Another
> fine amateur product line has bit the dust!
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
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