Topband: Dealing with the rotor on a driven tower

[Pete Smith]

This is absurd.  I have two Yaesu rotators on my shunt-fed tower, one on 
a side-mount and the other inside the tower.  Needless to say, there has 
been no damage in over 5 years.  You just ran into somebody 
overexercising his corporate CYA muscle.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 7/13/2010 2:10 PM, Brian Machesney wrote:
> I spoke with Yaesu on this question and received the answer that the rotor
> must be insulated from any surface that carries RF to prevent "unexpected
> behavior" and/or damage to the rotor and/or control box.
>
> I'd like to know if there are simpler solutions that readers of the
> reflector have used successfully. I just put up my tower single-handed a
> year ago (that was a lot of work for a first-timer) and I'm not feeling all
> that ready to go back up and start messing with it.
>
>