[TowerTalk] Step IRs

[David Fuller]

Took about 4 years for my 2 ele to fail.
The plastic mounts for the motors and gear bushings got hot and got
discolored.   They cracked which then allowed the cogs to miss the copper
tape and the motors would move without moving the tape.
It is fixable but I'm probably never going to put up a SteppIR again on my
main tower.   My long term plan is to make my tower rotate and put a stack
of monoband M2 antennas on the tower.

I have had the M2 4 ele 40MLLDD up in a nasty windy cold mean environ since
2005 and the thing is still perfect.

-Dave NN5K


On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Jim W7RY <jimw7ry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please elaborate on your Step IRs falling apart.
>
> Thanks
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
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> From: "Larry Burke" <wi5a at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 5:51 AM
> To: "'Terry Zivney'" <objectiveuser at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Dropping guys
>
> > I was admiring your tower and antennas on QRZ.com. I'm toying with taking
> > down my three-stack of SteppIRs (they are falling apart) and replacing
> > with
> > something with less moving parts ;-)
> >
> > Are your interlaced Yagis homebrew or commercially made?
> >
>
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