[TowerTalk] Innovantennas contact

[Calvin Starr]

Innovantennas are designed in England but WIMO in Germany manufactures 
and ships th Innovantennas.  You might contact them, that is who I got 
replacement parts from last year.

Calvin KR5E


On 11/26/2025 3:43 PM, Steve Harrison wrote:

> On 11/26/2025 12:43 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Does anybody know about Innovantennas contact?
>>
>> I emailed both support at innovantennas.com and sales at innovantennas.com and
>> now answer
>
> Same here, no answer to repeated e-mails. My question had to do with 
> the fact that both the booms and elements of my 4-element 6M LFA-Q 
> "quad" antenna resonate when the wind blows, either direction, with 
> the boom plane or with the element plane. Obviously, I have to put 
> rope inside the elements and boom to tame that (as Hygain has one do 
> with the elements on their VB66DX 6-element 6M yagi). This is kinda 
> curious as Innovantenna's web page for the LFA-Q shows several people 
> with LFA-Qs sitting way up high on tall towers. I'd hate to have had 
> to hire a tower-climber to put the thing up all that way, then find 
> out the booms and elements bounce around in moderate wind like Twiggy 
> doing the shimmy way back in Laugh-In shows  8-P
>
> The instructions also did not state how far to insert the ends of the 
> elements. I was also furnished only half the required hardware to 
> assemble the two booms of my "quad" and I wanted to let them know 
> about that shortcoming; the manual is also incorrect on that count. I 
> had to buy hardware from my hardware store and fortunately, they had 
> metric bolts which are required because the boom is tapped for metric 
> bolts.  Since Innovantenna products are European, they have an 
> obscession with metric hardware 8-). But Innovantenna seems to be 
> deaf. I didn't try DXE since they don't make the antlers, just market 
> them.
>
> As a positive aside, I'm more than happy with the performance of the 
> LFA-Q.
>
> Steve, K0XP
>
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