[TowerTalk] New antenna system

[Carl Smidt]

After 2 1/2 years, no malfunctioning problems here either, winter OR 
summer.

Subjectively beats my earlier tri-bander beams without qualification.

Great antenna.

One has to use one to appreciate one.


73,   Carl   VE9OV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Fatchett" <w0mu at w0mu.com>
To: "'reflector -tower'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system


> No problems here.
>
> W0MU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Katz
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:15 PM
> To: 'David Robbins K1TTT'; reflector -tower
> Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system
>
> Hi David,
>
> Very relevant question, there.
>
> My answer, thus far, would be "pretty much everybody" has had failures 
> with
> the SteppIR products.  At least, everyone I've spoken with who has 
> one.
> Again, I've heard nothing but glowing compliments regarding service, 
> but of
> course I'd much rather not have the failures.
>
> Possibly some of the controller failures I've heard about are 
> lightning
> related; however here in L.A., lightning is a very rare phenomenon 
> indeed
> and it's common to go 6-12 months at a time without a single lightning 
> event
> anywhere in the area.  And the two failures I referenced occurred when 
> no
> lightning had occurred in a very long time.
>
> WA6DKN had to return his controller not once, but twice.  He's on #3 
> at this
> time.
>
> WB2WIK/6
>
> "Nobody needs more than 640k!" -Bill Gates, 1982
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Robbins K1TTT [SMTP:k1ttt at arrl.net]
>> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:27 PM
>> To: reflector -tower
>> Subject: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] New antenna system
>>
>>
>>
>> A sample of 2 does not a valid set of statistics make, unless that is
>> the whole universe.  How many others do you know who did not have 
>> them
>> fail?
>>
>> As for the early failures... The phenomena of 'infant mortality' in
>> electronics is well known and documented.  In any reasonably complex
>> electronic device more failures happen in the first few months than
>> just about the whole rest of the expected life of the device.  In 
>> many
>> cases there is also a sudden rise in failures after some long period
>> due to predictable ageing of some components... this leads to the
>> infamous 'bathtub' curve for electronics failure rates.  High in the
>> beginning, low for a long time in the middle, and rising relatively
>> sharply near the end.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
>> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
>> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>>
>>
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