Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 18:15:14 -0500
Cheers! ....... 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 ____________
To this reasonably new ham (2011), it looks like the antenna would be the "rotor" and the thing that spins it would be the "rotator." Hy-Gain and Yaesu seem to agree on their websites, as they call t
My Mazda RX-8 has a rotor, my tower has a rotator. My plumber has a rotor rooter!! Do I turn (or rotate?) an antenna (or an aerial)? I suspect aerial came first. How did it transform into what we com
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 09:43:25 -0600
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 tha
Author: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 11:11:22 -0500
And, needless to say, those "more intelligent" have to point it out to us "less". :-) originally I was told it's called a rotor even if the "correct" name is "Rotator". Pardon me how many of you call
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:17:01 -0600
I apologize for kicking off the rotor-rotator thing. Never mind, I'll just use whatever comes to mind like maybe the Goes-around-to-aim-the-antenna-thingy. And for all you language lawyers... Tis! Pa