[TowerTalk] wireless rotor

Charles Lind cxl24 at case.edu
Wed Apr 10 09:38:01 EDT 2013


I've been using Green Heron Everywhere for three years to control a rotor
and switching for five antennas with no failures or downtime.  Saves a lots
of expensive cable, the groundhogs can't eat the wireless signal, and if
something were to go wrong, I wouldn't have to dig up 400 feet of cable.
Chuck, N8CL


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Dino Darling <dino at kx6d.com> wrote:

> Not sure if it was green Heron, but this was demo'd almost 5 years ago
> at Visalia...although if I remember correctly, they couldn't get it to
> work.
>
> Dino - KX6D
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] wireless rotor
> From: "Tim Duffy" <k3lr at k3lr.com>
> Date: Fri, March 29, 2013 8:38 am
> To: "'Charles Gallo'" <charlie at thegallos.com>, "'Kenneth Waites'"
> <barbiekenw at yahoo.com>
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
>
> Speaking of reducing control wires - Here are some nice wireless control
> ideas from Green Heron
>
> http://greenheronengineering.com/GHE_Overview.php?
>
> 73,
> Tim K3LR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Charles Gallo
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:38 AM
> To: Kenneth Waites
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] wireless rotor
>
> Seriously, I've actually given thought to the idea of a line of up the
> tower
> and base of tower products that would only take 12 volt power, and the
> commands would go via zigbee or 1 wire buss
>
> On Mar 29, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Kenneth Waites <barbiekenw at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What we need is a wifi rotor so no rotor cable is needed.
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