[TowerTalk] Innovantennas. Just say no.

[Gary Johnson]

What brand to choose? I’ve been holding my tongue for a long time but here goes. The answer is in this evidence: My direct observation of 10 Innovantenna Yagis with 10 complete failures. No, make that 11/10 after one boom broke for the second time. And have you ever heard of a boom bending and failing SIDEWAYS? Ask W6TCP, who had four 22 element 2m X-pols do exactly that. Then his quad 70cm array had 2 booms break and a glorious scattering of elements on the ground. And two 6m LFAs with snapped booms. What a bunch of junk. BTW I got $8 at the scrap dealer for a 5L 6m.

Now it’s JK all the time. Or M Squared if JK doesn’t offer it. Some models from Antennas-Amplifiers are also ok but others have crappy boom couplings. Square metric tubing. No thank you.

Gary NA6O  
gwj at me.com