Comprod are former employes of Sinclair,they start thir own company many years
ago.
i have been using their antenna,2 dipole,for almost 10 years now,in a salt
environnement near the st-laurence river and it never fail.
the quality is there and price too,at least in CND prices.
i also have an SRL210A4 Sinclair on top of a tower at 250 feet for 30 years
,,it never fail too but she is beginning to show some fatigue now ,,
i would never use fiberglass antenna for repeater,static,grounding,,quality,i
would prefer find used dipole ,rebuilt it and put it back online then using
these but this is my personnal choice from my experiences.it is like putting a
capacitor at 125 feets high and transmit
73/s all
gervais,ve2ckn
From: Eric Grabowski
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:13 AM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Sinclair - big price jump?
I came across this company that lists dipole arrays for 220 MHz on page
38 of their online catalog. I have no idea what the prices are, but thought I
would pass it along since I haven't seen it mentioned before on this list.
http://www.astronwireless.com/
Eric KH6CQ
--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Jeff DePolo <j...@broadsci.com> wrote:
From: Jeff DePolo <j...@broadsci.com>
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Sinclair - big price jump?
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 5:20 AM
I haven't bought any of their antennas for ham projects yet. I've
purchased
one of their VHF dipole arrays for a commercial job, but I wasn't
on-site
when it was delivered, unpacked, or installed, so I didn't get to
examine
it. Most of what I've heard has been positive. They share a lot of
similarity with Sinclair's products; I heard (maybe even here) that
some of
their engineers, or maybe company founders, were ex-Sinclair employees.
They seem to be much more popular in Canada then down here in the
states.
I have some of Comprod's filtering products and have been happy with
those.
I've been very happy with Sinclair's dipole arrays, which is what I was
leaning toward buying, but the price is getting a little out of hand.
The
Decibel dipole arrays were a good value, too bad they quit making them
for
the UHF ham split. These antennas will all be top-mounted, and I refuse
to
use fiberglass omnis for such installations, so my choices for dipole
arrays
are fairly limited. If Telewave made dipole arrays that included the
mast
and internal harness I'd consider them too, but they don't. TX-RX's
dipole
arrays (made by RFI) are another option, but I haven't yet found anybody
using them, and I'm not sure I want to be the $2000 guinea pig.
--- Jeff WN3A
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
> [mailto:Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of John Dewitt
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:29 AM
> To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sinclair - big price jump?
>
>
>
> Just wondering what your thoughts are concerning the COMPROD
> line of antennas. I was at one of their seminars and was very
> impressed with the construction and workmanship.
>
>
> Thank You.
> John
> Installer/Tech Midstate Communications
> 1st Lieut, S.T.V.F.D.
> KB3DOL
> www.midstatecomm. com <http://www.midstate comm.com>
> http://stvfd. homestead. com/ <http://stvfd. homestead. com/>
> www.repeater. net/n2hlt <http://www.repeater .net/n2hlt>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Jeff DePolo <j...@broadsci. com> wrote:
>
>
>
> From: Jeff DePolo <j...@broadsci. com>
> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Sinclair - big price jump?
> To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:05 AM
>
>
>
>
> I was about to order some Sinclair dipole arrays for
> upcoming projects
> (SD318 series 8-bay UHF). Last time I ordered one,
> probably 5 or 6 years
> ago, I thought it was around $1400. This time, all of
> my usual vendors are
> giving me quotes over $2,000???!? Did Sinclair have a
> big price jump over
> the last few years?
>
> I'm still waiting for a callback from the factory. I
> may go with Comprod
> instead - about $400 less each.
>
> --- Jeff WN3A
>
>
>
>
>
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