Have you considered that the manufacturer may in fact have been right?  You
say that the antenna worked, but did it work, and generate the antenna
patterns that the manufacturer wanted it to make?  The fact that you
transmitted and someone answered, doesn't mean that the antenna worked as
per its design.  I am simply saying that you may have thought that it
worked, but if you checked the pattern with a field strength meter, the
pattern may have been all munged up.
Believe me, things are never as simple as they seem.




Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Re antenna questions

The manufacturer told me mine would never work in my configuration, they 
never responded to the email when I told them it did. The buildings are just

too close they said.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:01 PM
Subject: Re antenna questions


>I think to do is locate the manufacturer and go from there.=20
> The vertical users on this list have there antennas setup differently.=20
> I have a Zero Five 43 footer and its gonna be setup a little differently 
> tha=
> n John's Hustler or a Butternuts. If you gotta set it up like a Hustler, 
> you=
> won't go wrong.=20
>
> Michael DE VO1AX=20
>
> Sent from my iPhone=