About Us
Welcome to Scorpion Antennas
Hey, what's up, we don't see Ron and Sue anymore?
One of the little known facts about Scorpion Antennas is the hours worked building antennas in addition our day jobs. My wife Sue and I have full-time jobs. She works for IBM taking care of mainframe systems and I put in 12-hour plus days as a tech for a silicon wafer manufacturer. A typical workday has us up at 5:30 am and returning to the QTH around 8 pm four days a week. This leaves little or no time to answer phone calls or e-mails.
That leaves us just three days a week to spend 14 plus hours a day cranking out antennas for our customers.
The driving idea behind the company was to have something we could do when we retire. How about, purchasing a motor coach, seeing this great country and selling antennas along the way? Sounds like a fun retirement to me!
Well folks, a funny thing has happened in the last five years. It’s called success. It caught us off guard and was beyond our wildest imagination of what could happen.
We believed in the beginning that we could produce and sell a few antennas on our days off, but that hasn’t turned out as planned!
One of the things that we had forgotten is that hams love to talk. Thanks to our wonderful customers, the word has spread about our commitment to building great antennas and providing excellent service. The overwhelming number of orders we have received took us by surprise to say the least.
As a result, it takes us two to four weeks to deliver depending on the time of year.
Many of you have inquired about us going full-time with our busy business. My wife and I really enjoy our current day jobs. We do plan on going fulltime with our business at sometime in the future. Until then, we will still try to fill all orders in a timely manner, so we ask that you please be patient.
If you are inquiring or would like to purchase one of our antennas and have a few questions, please give us a little time to respond.
It might be a few days before we can get back to you.
During our real jobs regular work week of Sunday through Wednesday, 12 plus hours a day, make it difficult to respond immediately. We hope you understand.
We have tons of fun meeting people at various gatherings, and look forward to meeting many more of you in the future. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.
At Scorpion Antennas
We design and build antennas for amateurs that demand outstanding performance.
Our design concepts and requirements specifications for our Antenna design are founded on mobile operations. The mobile amateur is unique. His needs for an antenna are complex.
Driving is his first concern and radio second.
An antenna must perform efficiently on a limited mobile ground plane all within a dynamically moving radiation environment.
The mobile amateur requires an operating system (radio & antenna) that is easy to operate with a no hassel antenna tuning during QSY operations, simple, safe, must cover 10 to 160 meters, and does not imped attention to his primary task .... driving and saftey.
Our antennas were originally designed to perform efficiently in mobile operations from 10-160 meters.
We then adapted them for base station operations to meet the needs for amateurs living in a community with antenna restrictions.
Don’t let HOA restrictions keep you off the air. We have solutions to fit almost any space restriction.
The amateur community we serve wants an Extremely Heavy Duty, High Performance Antenna; This is what we strive to deliver.
We manufacture antennas that:
• Cover HF bands from 10 - 160 meters
• Withstand legal limit power
• Will not rust when left outside
• Comes with a lifetime warranty that is transferable.
We also offer our 30-Day Try-It money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with our product within the first 30 days, send it back for a full refund.
At Scorpion Antennas we use only the finest quality components. Scorpion Antennas™ are built to last long enough to pass down to your kids.
Scorpion Antennas™ are rated at 1500 watts PEP at 1.5:1 SWR or less! We have done a lot of destructive testing and know what higher power or using short whips will do!
If a capacitive hat is used, please make sure it is at least 2 feet above the coil...any closer on large coil antennas affects antenna performance.
For Home Use
The Scorpion Home Install Package™ may be used with all of our antenna line.
The Scorpion Quick Connect Mounting System™ "antenna mounting stud" allows you to move the antenna from your mobile to your backyard and be on the air in a few short minutes.
Our home install package also makes an excellent antenna for Field Day, Emergency and Portable Operations.
Operators report being very pleasantly surprised at the performance of Scorpion Home Backyard Installations.
This is your invitation to join the growing legion of satisfied Scorpion Antenna owners who work the world from home and on the road.
Thank you for your interest in our products
73
Ron Douglass, NI7J
Scorpion Antennas
623-326-8780
