[TowerTalk] Hy-Gain Rotators

[Phil Duff]

At 13:33 1/13/00 -0600, Merv Schweigert wrote:

>If you think 719.00  is high for a rotor, dont even guess what a
>new made prop pitch would cost.  If anyone has had one apart
>and seen the machining and gear size and accuracy, it would cost
>more than what you have in your whole ham station,  especially
>for the quantity involved.   If you have a good prop pitch, and
>its properly weatherproofed, all you have to do is change motor
>brushes every 10 years (?)  it will never wear out with ham use.
>The M2 box has made prop pitchs a viable alternative these days,
>finally got rid of the headaches of the selsyn drives and extra wires.
>Merv K9FD
> >
> > Wonder what a newly manufactured P/P motor after the fashion of the
> > WWII military specs would cost these days? Half a century later and we
> > are still rotating beams with them.
> >
Wow -
$719. for a T2X?!  That's goofy.

Let's not talk up prop pitchs too much.  I've already noticed a substanial
bump up in asking prices for them.

73 de Phil NA4M
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Phil Duff NA4M     na4m@texas.net   Georgetown, Texas  


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