Seriously?? You probably have memorized the callsign prefixes of close
to 300 different countries ... keeping track of six heading numbers
should be trivial by comparison and takes no greater number of mental
steps than pushing buttons.
Dave AB7E
On 3/26/2014 8:49 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
I have use the HyGain DCU-1 rotor controller for twelve years of
contesting. The presets are the things making it a gem.
There are six buttons and each can be programmed for a specific heading.
Thus, when I want EU, I hit the "EU" button and don't think about my beam
heading again...... until I want "NA" or whatever.
I am surprised that there appears not to be another rotor controller with
this obvious nice feature. The Green Heron, for example, is a finely
crafted unit, but to use it, one has to think of 1. where do I want to
point, 2. what is that heading in degrees, and then 3. turn the knob to
that heading.
That is more thinking than one needs to do in a contest. I guess some
brave folks run their rotors from a computer command somehow, or even from
the radio directly (Yaesu). I have too many rotor failures/ant problems to
trust that level of automation, but I can understand this one DCU-1 unit,
standing alone and doing only one thing... simple, simple, simple.
73
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