[TowerTalk] Isoloop Packing

[Jim Lux]

Got the URL wrong for Old Dominion. It's http://www.odfl.com/
What differentiates companies is their willingness to pickup and/or deliver
at various locations or at an appointed time (as opposed to "drop it on your
dock sometime in the next week") as well as general customer service kinds
of things.

The basic shipping rates are fundamentally fixed, regardless of company,
based on weight and freight class.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: <N4CW at aol.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Isoloop Packing


> You're probably getting hammered by "dimensional weight".. big, undense
> stuff gets socked heavily.
> Why not ship it by truck freight? Old Dominion (http://www.odtl.com/ I
> think) for instance does this kind of thing fairly inexpensively.
> Parcel post through USPS is another alternative.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <N4CW at aol.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:28 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Isoloop Packing
>
>
> > I need to ship an Isoloop antenna to my son-in-law 2500 miles away. I
went
> to
> > a local pack 'n ship place and got some prices on shipping alone; would
> you
> > believe costs for shipping started around $135 (Fed Ex Home Delivery) to
> about
> > $550 for motor freight??? That's for an antenna that I paid less than
$100
> for
> > at a hamfest!
> > Surely, there's a better way...
> > My question: can I bend/form the loop strap (without breaking it) in
such
> a
> > way that I can put it in a smaller box (than with the circular loop --
> about
> > 46" in diameter)?
> > Some of you may have bought or handled an Isoloop a few years back. How
> was
> > it packaged to ship?
> > Thanks,
> > Bert, N4CW
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