[TowerTalk] Help in planning a new QTH

[Joe - WDØM]

Same here - the negative comments seem to come from those who don't own 
one.  Mine has been up for 18 months, survived heavy winds and up to 3 
inches of ice - and keeps on ticking.  Love it!

73,
Joe
WDØM

At 06:10 PM 3/16/2005, Tom McAlee wrote:
> > For me the Steppir has too many moving parts way up the in the air.
>Anything mechanical will break sometime, and if it moves it will break
>quicker.
>
>I considered that.  At the same time, the only negative comments I have ever
>heard about the SteppIR are from those who do not actually have one.  On
>eham.net, the only review that was not a 5 was one person who gave it a 3
>and said why it went with something else instead; he never actually owned or
>used one.
>
>I've not heard any such complaints from people who actually have one.
>Granted, it hasn't been around all that long, so maybe time will tell.  In
>the meantime I love my 4-element SteppIR :)
>
>Tom, NI1N
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Jones K0HY" <k0hy at comcast.net>
>To: "Steve London" <n2ic at arrl.net>
>Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>; "na5s" <na5s at zianet.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Help in planning a new QTH
>
>
> > For me the Steppir has too many moving parts way up the in the air.
> > Anything mechanical will break sometime, and if it moves it will break
> > quicker.
> >
> > 73  Jim
> >