The first threaded launcher is operational. This unit launched a ball towing line 135 feet high during initial testing.
The new kit instructions will be ready soon. Orders after 3/10/2010 will be the threaded design. These are easier to assemble and more easily maintained.
This launcher will be displayed and available for sale at the Monterey Radiofest NEXT WEEKEND. Hope to see you all there.
Is it too early to start planning for Field Day? Let’s see. If it takes us a month to make your kit, a week to ship it, and a week for you to build it, plus a couple of weeks to test it and learn how to use it, that means it should be ordered in about March or for those last minute folks, April! If you want us to build it, then April is probably too late, order it by March!! Heck, it is almost March already!! There are quite a few launchers in the que, and parts are coming in. We have a lot of cutting, cementing and packing to do.
We will be at RadioFest in Monterey. I don’t plan to have a separate booth but maybe we will have a small demo launcher setup at the Cookie Lee booth! (If the wife will let me have a little space).
I should have the prototype CSV17 “threaded” launcher finished by then. Come by and say hi!!
Today I’m working on inventory and setting up the catalog for January. There are a dozen sets of parts remaining for the CSV17 and CSV19 launchers, and the threaded launcher is not quite ready, so we will start the year with the current model. When these are sold the threaded launchers should be available.
The Mill has been repaired, a new motor controller was adapted and installed. The compressor is still out, will need to address that soon.
The new catalog pricing will shift a bit as we move some costs from the handling category to the launcher base price. So shipping & handling costs will go down while the launcher base will go up some. The total may go up slightly reflecting increases in component costs that we previously did not pass on.
We are planning to go to Quartzfest in mid January which will stop production for a week or more. Hope to see you there!
The first CSV17 (later called the CTV17) Threaded Launcher was glued-up last evening. This new model features a number of upgrades that make it easier to assemble and maintain. In a few weeks the threaded models will replace the current models.
We have had customers apply our Antenna Launchers to many purposes. The paraplegic who wanted to exercise his dog. The researcher who needed to put sensor lines into tall trees. The power utility that needed to put sensors on high pipes. The roofing contractor that wanted safety lines over the houses. The Ham Radio operator who wanted to put wire antennas over large patches of poison oak. If you have a unique application for our Safe Line Launchers please let us know. We should compile a list!
