[Mldxcc] Yaesu G2800 DXA Help

[John Miller]

A good friend, Don Greenbaum (N1DG) is having some Rotor challenges.  He posted this message to the YCCC reflector recently.

I told him I'd pass it on to this reflector, just in case you might be able to help.

Don's email address is:  don at aurumtel.com

73,
John, K6MM

Begin forwarded message:

From: Don Greenbaum <don at aurumtel.com>
Date: July 9, 2011 6:35:27 AM PDT
To: webaron at gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: [YCCC] Yaesu G2800 DXA help

Yesterday I went to turn my rotor from SW to East.   I use a green heron controller.

When the direction indicator got to 270 deg (from 240) the indicator stopped and the OT indicator lit (out of range error).  I went back to 240 and all seemed fine until I repeated the East target and got the same result.

Thinking it was a controller issue I reconnected the Yaesu controller.  Same issue, indicator only registers from around 180 to 270.

I can turn the rotor manually without a problem, but of course the point and shoot functions won't work on either controller.  And the tower is not visible from the house (time for a remote camera?)

Questions:

My rotor control cable is buried around 200 feet...could a cable malfunction account for loss of SOME pot voltage and account for the out of range error?

Has anyone seen a pot fail in just SOME directions?

Anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions from the same experience?

Thanks.

Don

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