[TowerTalk] polyrod

[RICHARD BOYD]

Yeah, well I absolutely do not and will not get involved in any sort of argument about this, but for anyone at Polygon to say they've never heard of such a thing just shows ignorance on their part.  What causes it may be open for debate, but to not have heard of it...just stupid.

It was definitely years ago now, so maybe their staff has turned over that much that these "new guys," if that's what they are, have never heard of it.  But, we ordered some significant quantities in a group purchase, it came shipped in "their" coils, their coil size, which was about 8' diameter as I recall, and all of it that was left in that coil for more than a few days, or maybe it was a few weeks, all of it, 100% of it broke at intervals of between a few feet and, I'd say, 50-100' maximum.  Unless it was mishandled in some way during shipping -- and how could we know that? -- and the shipper was chosen by Polygon as I recall.  It was carefully handled once received.

As I recall, the people who unrolled it immediately upon receipt were okay.  The clear impression left with us non-engineers was that it could not handle being left in Polygon's 8' coil for long.  That was the empirical but unscientific observation.  Ones left coiled broke; ones that were uncoiled did not break.

All that aside, going back to my original point, for people at Polygon to not remember it, to claim to know nothing about such things, shows a pretty poor corporate memory, if you ask me.

Please don't tell them I said this, because I expect to be buying from them again and I'd hate to be "black balled!"  I like their product and its price, but when mine arrives I will definitely unroll it right away, even if I'm not ready to put it up right away!

73 - Rich, KE3Q
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Claerbout<mailto:K4ZW at Staffnet.com> 
  To: towertalk at contesting.com<mailto:towertalk at contesting.com> 
  Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:51 PM
  Subject: [TowerTalk] polyrod


     To add another real world experience to the discussion earlier this
  month, one of the locals has a coil of Polyrod he picked up from the sale of
  K4JA's station.  It was stored in a coil but covered to protect it from the
  sun.  He called me this past week and said it had splintered throughout the
  roll.  As a result the entire coil of Polyrod is shot and will have to be
  replaced.  Take your chances if you want but mine is unrolled in the back
  yard.

  73
  Ken K4ZW


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