[TowerTalk] STEPPir ANTENNAs

[Jim Brown]

On 4/5/2025 2:05 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> The more you complicate the plumbing, the easier it is to clog the toilet.

Exactly right, especially about the big SteppIRs. I've had the straight 
3-el up since 2009, with no issues I can blame on the antenna. It's a 
mature design mechanically. My neighbor, W6GJB, himself an ME, 
experienced infant mortality with his brand new 3-trombone SteppIR (I'd 
guess this was maybe 2012-14), and sent each motor back to the factory 
for repair. Each time, he waited a couple of months without hearing 
anything, so called, and each time he was told that it was ready to be 
shipped. It was clearly not yet a mature design mechanically.  Luckily 
for him, it's on a crank-up.

After those repairs, it's worked fine for him.  I've heard similar 
stories from other users of the big trombone Yagis.

73, Jim K9YC