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Yaesu rotor report

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Subject: Yaesu rotor report
From: seay@alaska.net (Del Seay)
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 05:56:27 -0700
David Robbins wrote:
> 
> Larry A. Crim wrote:
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > The Yaesu rotors are great!..Just be sure to tighten the mast clamp
> > carefully.  They break REAL easy.

The "self-centering" design of the Yaesu rotators is a great help
when used with thrust bearings. Too bad it's aluminum.
On the down side - the Yaesu motors are DC, which lends to noisy,
sparking brushes after a while. I haven't opened mine yet, but will
have to soon, as now it wipes out .5 uV signals while turning.
Never had that problem with the CDR/Hy_gain jobs. de KL7HF

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