[TowerTalk] Yaesu rotors

[Pete Smith]

At 07:05 PM 6/9/00 EDT, N3SL@aol.com wrote:
>
>Mike,
>    I'm using the 1000SDX to turn the C-4XL and WARC-7, and it'll whip those 
>puppies around in less than 45 seconds!  Only been up a year, but no rotor 
>problems so far.
>    However, I will say I've had difficulty with the Yaesu cable connector 
>(at the rotor end).  My cable run is nearly 300 feet, so I am using 16/18 
>gauge cable.  The connector will not take wires that large.  I finally had
to 
>buy a new one (after multiple soldering jobs ruined the original - and no, 
>I'm not THAT bad at soldering), and used a 18/22 gauge "jumper" for the last 
>foot of the run so I could get a decent connection!

I didn't run into thisd problem, but that was because I used 2 lengths of
14/3 UFB electrical cable for my long run, and assumed that I would need a
smaller, more flexible cable for the terminating portions of the run.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 



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