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Re: [TowerTalk] Idiom Press RotorCard - Yaesu DXA

To: <BobK8IA@aol.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Idiom Press RotorCard - Yaesu DXA
From: "Byron Lichtenwalner" <w3wkr@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:05:34 -0400
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Bob
I have one installed in a T2X for about 2 years now.
Works fine when driven with a true serial card or an USB to serial port.
 Installation and operation worked fine following manuf. instructions

Byron, W3WKR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BobK8IA@aol.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Idiom Press RotorCard - Yaesu DXA


> Tower Talk folks;
>
> Any of you use the Idiom Press RotorCard - Yaesu DXA, for control  of a 
> Yaesu
> G-2800DXA rotator? Product reviews on eham.net seem good,  but hardly 
> anyone
> giving a review is familiar to me, like a lot of the  TowerTalkians are.
>
> The reason I am thinking of this product is to fullly integrate my  wife's
> (N7RQ) station into my shack, giving her a separate operating position 
> like
> she's been used to. That card should allow her to serially tie her 
> computer  to
> the normal Yaesu control box on my desk, about 8 ft away. So the two of 
> us,
> ideally, could share a single rotator box, without either one of us 
> leaving the
> operating position.
>
> The price of this card seems very inviting, especially considering 
> Yaesu's
> alternative.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Looks easy to install. Comments?
>
> 2. Any problems with operation? Maintenace?
>
> 3. This device still allows manual operation,  correct?
>
> Tnx to all!
>
> 73, Bob  K8IA
>
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