[TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480

[David Gilbert]

It's actually the AV-680, and all three eHam reviews describe major 
quality issues.

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/10961

Two reviewers accordingly gave the antenna a poor grade..  The third 
reviewer gave it a good mark because the dealer provided good followup 
service although he had no other antenna to compare it against and fell 
back on the invalid "if I can hear it I can work it" endorsement 
regarding actual performance.

The only conclusion that can be made here is that three users had 
out-of-the-box quality problems and that none of them were able to 
objectively comment on the performance of the antenna.  Without 
searching for other reviews nobody would know if the quality issues are 
typical or not since, as someone else here pointed out, people are much 
more likely to take to the forums to air a grievance than express 
satisfaction.

73,
Dave   AB7E




On 4/9/2014 5:47 PM, john at iguanavilla.com wrote:
> I was curious what this antenna is and google cannot seem to find it.  Are
> the poor reviews quality related or regarding performance?
>
> John KK9A
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> To:	 <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:	 [TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480
> From:	 "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
> Reply-to:	 David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>
> Date:	 Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:19:46 -0400
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> I tried to convince Ray W5EW to replace his 6BTV vertical with a Hy-Gain
> AV-480 but the reviews on eHam were so bad he has decided not to spend the
> money. The 6BTV has 30 radials and does well in the RTTY Contests he enters
> running low power.
>
> How do we over ride the poor reviews from hams who probably have no idea of
> how to set up a vertical?
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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