[TowerTalk] Yaesu GX-800 trouble...

[Pat Barthelow]

In recent times, I have twice gotten lucky helping fellow hams
troubleshoot (in both cases) Yaesu rotors.  The rotor control cable got
caught (hooked) on the protruding ends of the U-Bolts on the rotating bell
above.  Rotation simply stressed the conductors until one or more pulled
out of the  connector plug pins on  the bottom-side mounted  connnector.
Usually, depending on which conductor gets pulled, the rotor simply
stops   and in most cases, the tighly pulled rotor cable could be observed
with binoculars from the ground.....

73, DX, de 
Pat, AA6EG/N6IJ; 
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ron Rossi, KK1L wrote:

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> Folks,
> 
> I am trying to help a buddy trouble shoot a GX-800 rotator over the air
> (ie I am not there to physically help him). He gets no reading on the
> direction indicator. Can anyone tell me which pins I should have him
> check to see if the variable resistor is working or not? Any common fail
> modes for this type of problem on this rotator? I will be at this guys
> place for IARU in the morning and I sure would like to help him get this
> thing going.
> 
> Any help would be appretiated!!
> 
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