On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:21:28 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Friday, April 25, 2008 7:50:21 AM UTC+10, patrick.obrien47 wrote:
HI
Has anyone bought this small TAK-tenna HF Aerial
? or know anyone that has?

Just wonder how they got on with it.?

Patrick GW1SXN

I tried to buy one and was stung. Was told to send a Western Union payment and he reckons it never came, so $230 odd Australian. He virtually said in email he didn't receive the payment (told me himself it will be that day) and has written the transaction off the books. So, I'm down $230 odd for the experience and he won't return my emails now.

Steer clear of the so called TAK-tenna site, you won't get your antenna. So, all in all, can't tell you how it works.


Retributive justice, your nemesis.

I once ordered a direction finding antenna from USA for 100$
plus 50 $ postage plus 20$ customs, and all I got was some bent wire
with loose connectors. The coax cable was not even soldered or
crimped on the BNC central pin!

I am Austrian, the other guy is Australian, not far away :-)
Ceterum Censeo, USA must be punished.

w.

That antenna is simply $30 worth of PVC pipe and wire. Don't hams homebrew anything anymore?
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

"W5DXP" wrote in message
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That antenna is simply $30 worth of PVC pipe and wire. Don't hams homebrew
anything anymore?
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Many hams don't homebrew. They do not have to tools to do things like hams
of the past.
It is often cheaper just to buy something already made. Say I was going
to put up something like the G5RV. I have to buy some wire. The wire is
just over 100 feet. That might mean buying 500 feet on a roll or ordering
it with the postage. Then need some ladder line. Need about 35 feet. Have
to get either 50 or 100 feet if I can find it locally, probably not any
around now as most TV sets use cable or coax. Also insulators and coax to
locate. Things start to add up. Or I could get it all in one 'kit' for much
less.

Not all hams have a place to store supplies or build things that are large.
I sometimes build and sometimes buy. I just bought something to program
some radios off ebay. It was a circuit board with the parts on it. I did
have to put it in a box. The board only had 1 IC and a few capacitors and
leds on it. Two boards shipped was only $ 7.99. The shiping could have
more than that at some places. I was going to order a VHF preamp kit but
the postage put me off. They wanted $ 12.00 for postage. I could have put
50 of those kits in the $ 5.50 UPS mailing box. The kit was about the same
as the postage.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:00:03 +0200, Helmut Wabnig [email protected] ---
-.dotat wrote:

On Friday, April 25, 2008 7:50:21 AM UTC+10, patrick.obrien47 wrote:
HI
Has anyone bought this small TAK-tenna HF Aerial
? or know anyone that has?

Note the date above. This is a recycled old posting, posted by some
moron who gets his jollies reposting old messages.

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Jeff Liebermann
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558