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[TowerTalk] Correction KV4AA 20 meter beam was a Telrex

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Correction KV4AA 20 meter beam was a Telrex
From: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:03:11 -0400
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Now thats a CLASSIC Herb!

Love these old radio stories!!

Best regards,
Scott W3TX

On Jun 1, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com> 
wrote:

I remember visiting the radio shack of DX legend Dick Spencely's (KV4AA) in the 
70's and saw how he rotated his*Telrex*  20 meter Yagi with a bicycle elongated 
chain drive that came into the shack and was driven by a reversible motor.  He 
had a positional marker on the chain that gave him his direction indicator.  It 
was 100% home brew but never failed.  The beam was on  a windmill tower with 
the mast coming all the way to the ground with coupled water pipes and a 
bearing at ground level where the main chain driven sprocket was located.


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Hi Danny,

Rack and pinion is mostly for linear motion. I believe a worm gear with
direct drive or a chain drive would be a better choice. Using a worm gear
you have the breaking function built in. Good luck!

 Bert, VE3NR


-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Danny
Pease
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 3:23 PM
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] homebrew rotator

I have been intrigued with putting together my own antenna mast rotation
system and wondered if anyone has any info on using a rack and pinion gear
type system in conjunction with a linear actuator. If the rack and pinion
turns out to be too expensive, my second choice would be a chain drive with

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