Hans, There is merit to the info provided re rotor-rotator. I think it
borrows from the use of rotor vs stator as in an alternator or motor.
There is merit to the idea that a rotator is something that rotates or
rotates another object but ditto rotor.
Maybe I was being too old fashioned. I never heard the term rotator
applied to rotating a TV antenna, but instead always heard rotor. Hmmm
maybe there should have been Alliance Tenna Rotator vice Tenna Rotor. ;) ;)
I guess we'll have to "train" our spell checkers.
My current take is that both communicate unambiguously in our context.
I prefer to follow the "typesetter's rule" the one using the least
printer's ink is the correct one. ;) ;)
Best to you this New Year and to your electronic antenna positioning system!
Patrick NJ5G
On 1/3/2015 5:15 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
Cheers!
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 3, 2015 6:04 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Fast, cheap, and or good... Pick two.
....... antenna and rotor (when exactly did rotors become rotators?
(Maybe about the time all problems became issues?)
"Rotator" is not even in my spelling verifier.
Hans - N2JFS
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