[TowerTalk] Repetition

[Malcolm Ringel]

"Why not buy a good quality rotor in the beginning ...?"
Jeez, if you gotta ax that in a room full of hams, you must not have been
paying attention along the way........
73
Malcolm Ringel
ARS K3KZ
St. Michaels, MD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Repetition


> Tom,
>
> Boy, there sure is a lot of bitchy hams around these days.
> Why not buy a good quality rotor in the beginning?  It will
> be with you for a long time, provide trouble free service
> and you can upgrade your antenna in the future.  There you
> have three good reasons.
>
> Doug/VA5DX
>
> Rick Karlquist wrote:
> > Tom Martin said:
> >
> >>Also, why do the majority of the hams on here make recommendations for
> >>rotors that are overkill for the antennas to be turned and very costly?
> >>Not everyone that reads this reflector has two or more towers with
> >>muli-stacked arrays.  I really don't think that you need a $1000 rotor
> >>to rotate a 3 element SteppIR!
> >
> >
> > Many people are recommending the Alfa Spid, which is $1000 Canadian
> > or $700 US.  You will pay as much or more for a Ham IV with computer
> > interface.  The Alfa Spid has many advantages over the Ham IV that
> > have nothing to do with turning capacity.
> >
> > Rick N6RK
>
>
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