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Hi rich,
The way I heard the story is that the fellow from Erie PA who made them
in the '70's and 80's died and his widow sold the design to Tom VE3
something in Ontario. The construction is supposed to be vastly improved
over the earlier ones.
The plastic parts are supposed to be Lexan. The tubing is good quality and
not lawn chair aluminum like some antennas. The copper wire in the
reflector is flex-weave. I don't know if the tuning spokes are done
differntly than before, but I have not had any problems in 13 months
including ice, snow, and some serious winds.
Here is the link. The prices are in Canadian dollars. This is not the
antenna I want to spend the rest of my life using, but at this time it fits
my needs just fine.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tgmc/
Also a number of reviews for the various TGM antennas and the Butternut are
on eham.
73 Steve KW3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: mini-quad
> Hi Steve;
> I had one too in the late 80's and seem to remember there were lots of
> problems but much has happened since then. As for the mini-quad, is this
> the same old mini-quad that was out in the mid 1980's or something new and
> improved? I had the old miniquad and any good storm and you could count
on
> losing one little tuning spike which made at least one band useless.
> I'm curious as to details.
> Rich
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