I have a M2 Orion 2800, I agree their service is excellent. My newly
purchased Orion 2800 had a few problems when I first installed it in the
tower, I called M2 on a Saturday and Mike Stahl answered and spent the
better part of the day helping me with the problem. Mike finally decided it
would be better for me to send the 2800 back to him, I agreed. Instead of
making me wait to complete my tower project while he checked out the 2800 he
sent me a new one 2nd day UPS and I packed up the original 2800 and sent it
back to him, Mike picked up shipping charges both ways. Thats service.
The M2 Orion 2800 is turning an X9 at 73' and 16' above it a XM240 for the
last 6 months in Michigan were wind speeds can range up to 75 mph without
any problems.
de Ed AA8PA
>
>Hello ....., I have seen the emails going back and fort about the yaesu
>rotors.I had a 1000GSX for a while but the winds here in the High Desert
>took care of this toy real quick.
>I have the M2 Orion 2800 and this is the king of the rotors!
>Also the service is excellent. I had one small problems once and the owner
>him self was on the phone with me and did not hang up till the problem was
>solved. Well worth the money.
>73 Will, K6NDV
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Wallace <andywallace@home.com>
>To: K7LXC@aol.com <K7LXC@aol.com>
>Cc: K3AIR@aol.com <K3AIR@aol.com>; towertalk@contesting.com
><towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 6:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Problems with YAESU Rotor
>
>
>>
>>Steve--
>>
>>The clutch would only let loose in dangerously high winds. I'd rather
>replace a
>>coax connection then worry with a tower twisted down--I think it would be
a
>>little cheaper.
>>
>>Andy K5VM
>>
>>K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> In a message dated 99-02-13 19:29:30 EST, andywallace@home.com writes:
>>>
>>> > It is my
>>> > understanding that the most dangerous high wind force on a beam
>mounted
>>> > on a tower is a twisting force as opposed to simply blowing the tower
>>> > over. If this is so, why don't all rotors have some sort of a clutch
>that
>>> > will let the beam freewheel when the twisting force gets sufficiently
>>> > high? Seems like it might save a lot of rotors, beams and not a few
>>> > towers. I have a relatively small Yaesu rotor--I would much rather
>>> > replace it then the beam and/ or the tower if I get hit with a very
>high
>>> > wind.
>>>
>>> Well, you probably wouldn't want your antenna changing heading
when
>>> you're trying to work that P5 station and the wind's blowing. At some
>point
>>> the rotator has to run up against some kind of stop or it'll rip the
>feedline
>>> as it keeps turning in the wind. Bad idea actually.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Steve K7LXC
>>
>>
>>
>>
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