[TowerTalk] New ROTOR design at VISALIA DX convention

[K8RI]

On 4/27/2012 4:08 AM, Ray Benny wrote:
> You can see a few more photos of this rotator on the ARRL Contest Update
> done by N0AX. Scroll down aways to the "Photo links for the Visalia DX
> Convention". Click on XE2K's photos, photos # 20,21&  22 show more the of
> rotator side mount unit. There are alot of other photos of the Convention,
> however they are not labeled.

For a medium duty rotator (like the ham series) it looks nice and fits 
inside a 25G, but what doses it use for a brake?  Is it planetary gears.

As for the side mount, I'll pass.  That's a lot of torque for a 25G for 
anything more than a small antenna.

>
> The link below is to the ARRL Contest Update bulletin:
>
> https://mail.google.com/a/cableone.net/?AuthEventSource=SSO#inbox/136e7c410150a7e0

This takes me to a page where I have to log in.


73

Roger (K8RI)