My brother runs the Ringo Ranger and is very happy with it. It performs
very well and increased his range tremendously. I was even looking into
getting one for myself this summer. This is the first time that I had heard
any bad reviews of the antenna. I will have to check into it some more.

Guy P. Distaffen

KB0SWS


"David 01" wrote in message
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We wouldn't want to disconnect the bamboo. That's the only effective
antenna
between it and the Ringo Ranger II.

Seriously, the Ringo Ranger II was my first anteena back in 1990 and I
didn't know how poorly it performed until I changed to something else. To
this day I've never had anything else perform that poorly. Everyone that
I've talked to that has tried one has had the same expeerience. One guy
tried two of them. He bought the first one used and thought that he had
just
gotten a defective one and ordered a brand new one with the same result.

73

"Charlie" wrote in message
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No offense taken....
Where I live we use bamboo for fishing and Ringo Ranger II's for distant
vhf
communications. Perhaps you have it mixed up where you live. Take the
coax
off the bamboo and hook it back to the Ringo....

73 / DX

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Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Live Blues Music
www.492acousticblues.com




"David 01" wrote in message
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No offense, but where I live live the guys joke that they use the ringo
ranger II as a fishing pole or dummy load. We haven't experienced a
good
one
here. Anything else is far better in our experience and I know of no
one
actually using one now, but they say there's a stack of them avsailable
for
free behind a certain store.

"Charlie" wrote in message
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1. http://www.ad5th.com/VHF.html

Also shown my Ringo Ranger II - ARX-2B. Links to technical data for
each
antenna also.

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Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Live Blues Music
www.492acousticblues.com