[TowerTalk] AN Wireless "cease and desist" letter

[David Gilbert]

I have to agree with everything in this post.  Lawsuit threats are 
nothing to get all bent about, and they reflect far more on some 
individual's state of mind than they do on the product involved ... or 
on anything else applicable to the company.  I'm not even sure why Steve 
felt compelled to excerpt the thing here.

I'm an owner of an AN Wireless tower (the ad they used to run in QST 
used a picture of my installation) and it is a brute for not much more 
money than the Trylon Towers that Steve sells.  And I will again offer 
to send anyone a copy of the structural comparison between the two 
towers (one from an independent engineer that admittedly AN Wireless 
commissioned).

And I'm also pretty certain that Dan Simmonds sold the company several 
years ago.  I believe it was even moved from it's original location in 
Pennsylvania.  All of which makes me a bit suspicious of the legitimacy 
of the letter Steve received.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 5/4/2016 9:32 PM, W7ZZ wrote:
> I have no dog in this hunt, and I have not read the comments that K7LXC
> apparently posted regarding AN Wireless towers.  However, I have been an
> attorney for 44 years and I happen to own two AN Wireless towers, a 70 foot
> heavy duty and a 60 foot light duty.
>
>   
>
> I will say this:
>
>   
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> First, the AN towers are an extraordinarily good product.  Armageddon can
> come and go, but these towers will still be in the air.  I chose the AN
> Wireless towers over competing products for a number of reasons and I do not
> regret that decision one whit.  Now, having said that, are there issues with
> the towers?  Yes, but they are the same issues that any freestanding tower
> presents:  the need for a crane to put them up in the air, the need for a
> crane to take them down, difficulty and complexity of assembly, the
> inability to raise/lower them vertically or horizontally (as in crank up or
> tilt over towers) for antenna maintenance, etc.
>
>   
>
> Second, AN Wireless has every right to protest any comments that it thinks
> are defamatory, to include the right to sue.  You have that right. I have
> that right. They have that right.  Once again, I have not read what K7LXC
> posted and I make no comment on whether it was defamatory or true or fair
> comment or whatever . . .  But I will vigorously defend the right of
> anyone/any company to protest/sue to protect its rights.
>
>   
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> Thirdly, it was my understanding that Dan Simmonds had sold the company and
> that it is owned now by someone else currently.  I may be in error in that
> regard.  However, when I bought the towers about 8 years ago, I dealt with
> Dan, who is a very personable and responsive person.  When I finally got
> around to putting up the towers in 2015, I had some questions, and I dealt
> with what I believed to be the new owners of the company, who did not have a
> lot of information about the products sold in years past.  They were very
> responsive and helpful, but it was apparent that they did not have old
> drawings/plans, etc, which were needed to answer my particular questions,
> that related to the fall arrest system (which actually is from another
> company but sold under the AN name, as is common practice).
>
>   
>
> Finally, I happen to know, and I bet AN Wireless knows, that K7LXC's company
> has in the past sold (and may well still sell, I don't know) a competing
> similar freestanding tower product, so they might view his comments as a
> competitor a bit differently than comments from Joe Ham who just put up a
> tower and is "reviewing" it.  Since I have not seen K7LXC's original
> posting, I don't know whether this was disclosed.
>
>   
>
> As I said at the outset, I have no dog in this hunt and have not seen
> K7LXC's comments.  However, the numerous posts lambasting attorneys and
> companies who protect their rights prompted me to take the considerable time
> to draft and post this response.  Some day you might want to protect what
> you believe to be your rights.  I suspect you would not want to be attacked
> on the Internet for doing so.  Leave it to another, much more appropriate,
> forum to determine who is right in this instance.
>
>   
>
> 73, Doug W7ZZ
>
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