[TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480

[john at kk9a.com]

Unfortunately this email was accidently sent from a non-subscribed email
address yesterday and it finally was manually posted. By now others have
already stated that the AV 480 model number is incorrect.  If the MFJ
reviews are bad do to quality issues then the poor review scores may be
warranted. 

John KK9A



To:	 Tower Talk <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Subject:	 Re: [TowerTalk] Poor eHam reviews of the AV 480
From:	 Richard Solomon <dickw1ksz at gmail.com>
Date:	 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:58:34 -0700
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I think the reason you can't find it is that it's a Hy-Gain AV-680 not 480.
But then I could be wrong. Maybe it's made for the British Market.

73, Dick, W1KSZ


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 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
>
>
>
> 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