[TowerTalk] Rotator Questions

[Al Williams]

 The M2 2800 rating of 35 sq feet is comparable to my own rating of 400 sq 
feet (on an absolute calm day!).  Without a specified wind speed the rating 
is meaningless?
k7puc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stone, Gary R." <Gary.Stone at va.gov>
To: "Bill Carnett" <ah6fc at yahoo.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rotator Questions


> Hi Bill and others,
>
> OK - I will put in my .02 worth and please remember it is my experience
> only.  I went through three M2 rotators in a year.  Now, one of not
> their fault (lightening hit) but the other two were their fault.
>
> I am turning 26 sq. feet of antenna and I realize that is a lot but the
> M2 2800 is rated for 35 sq feet.  I have an Optibeam OB17-4 and 12 feet
> above that the Force12 WARC7.
>
> The first M2 lasted about a month and that was after lots of problems
> getting the reed line to work - always, always, always use coax of
> somekind for the reed line regardless of your length of run in my
> experience.  Then it gave way and M2 would never tell me what was the
> diagnosis but they did replace it after some discussion.  The second one
> arrived dead out of the box.  I had a tower climber scheduled for the
> coming Monday and this was a Friday so M2 agreed to try and walk me thru
> trouble shooting via the phone. Well, me and 2 friends worked on it for
> 3 hours and found 2 problems - one a simple wire but the other was a
> gear out of place and we had to take a hammer and whack it hard several
> times to get it to work - just the thing you want to do with a top of
> the line rotator that is new hi hi.
>
> Well, went ahead and installed it and it lasted until the lightening hit
> with no problems.  Then the 3rd unit was fine on the ground but would
> not work on the tower under any load.  So I got a refund and decided I
> better go with a pro-sis-tel and it has been working about 1 month and
> so far I am really happy with this BigBoy rotator.  The controller is
> much better with a point and rotate knob.  It is smooth operation so
> far.  I have a question I will formulate with another string but so far
> I am happy.  It is the PST61D
> and it is rated for 39 sq. feet.  So, that is my story.
>
> 73 de N5PHT, Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Carnett
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:21 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Rotator Questions
>
> Greetings to all,
>
>  I'm planning a new QTH and antenna (MonstIR, 2mtr, 70 cm) and had
> planned on utilizing the M2 OR-2800 rotator.  Recently I've heard,
> through the "grapevine" that the OR-2800 has had some problems with the
> MonstIR (and similar sized) yagis.  The Prosistel was recommended as a
> bettter choice.  Heresay?  Does anybody have comments or suggestions on
> this?
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>
>  73, Bill
>  AH6FC/7
>
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