[CQ-Contest] Rotors and preset controller

[Hector Garcia,XE2K]

use  a piece of paper over , post it  or just a piece of tape , that do not require a lot of  "THINKING"

 
J.Hector Garcia  XE2K / AD6D
Mexicali B.C  DM22fp / El Centro
P.O.Box 73 
El Centro CA 92244-0073
http://xe2k.net
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________________________________
 From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:49 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Rotors and preset controller
 

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
-- 
Charly, HS0ZCW
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