Replace A3S with X7 (almost)
07/26/09 22:31
I say almost because we were making great time today, got the 20 year old A3S down off the tower in an hour then quickly got to work on building the Cushcraft X7 beam. We got the boom assembly together, all the elements built and moved to the roof for element to boom assembly. This is where it stopped, Cushcraft switched the 4-1" ubolt and rubber grommet assemblies with 1-3/8" versions. We could not fabricate anything because of the specialized nature of the antenna. Alan W2MV will call Cushcraft in the AM and have them overnight the correct parts. Truly bummed us out as we never had to leave a job before from wrong parts, probably won't be the last time either. Nevertheless, we will have the right parts to finish up on Wednesday.
** UPDATE: After contacting Cushcraft, they mentioned that this is not uncommon for the X7, apparently they produce these models in large quantity and whoever puts the parts together made this mistake a few times, so if you are going to do a X7 be sure to check the inventory first!!
** UPDATE: After contacting Cushcraft, they mentioned that this is not uncommon for the X7, apparently they produce these models in large quantity and whoever puts the parts together made this mistake a few times, so if you are going to do a X7 be sure to check the inventory first!!