Topband: Dealing with the rotor on a driven tower

[Brian Machesney]

Wow... thanks for the many and unanimous response: insulation is out,
bypassing at the control box is in - if only for the sake of "good
practice." That will save me a boatload of effort.

-- 
73 -- Brian -- K1LI


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Brian Machesney <nekvtster at gmail.com>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.
>
> --
> 73 -- Brian -- K1LI
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