[TowerTalk] Yaesu G-450XL rotor control problem

[Magnus Aronsson]

Hi Herb

No, it is not any loose connections.
I tried a jumper cable and shorted the mid and upper position on the 
backside of the button turning the rotor clockwise and the rotor turns and 
indicator follows so it is definatly something wrong with my replacement 
button.
Now I need to replace it a second time.

Question is, what is causing it. Why do the right button fail 2 times when 
the left button never failed????

Something of notice is that when pressing the left button I hear a squicking 
light sound, sort of like springs getting compressed. This sound does not 
exist on the right button.

73 de Magnus SM6WET


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Schoenbohm" <herbs at vitelcom.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Yaesu G-450XL rotor control problem


> Magnus,  I had the same problem here on my VHF antenna rotated by the 
> GX-450 and found loose contacts at the crimp portion where the cable is 
> terminated in at the control box plug was what caused it.  Sometimes the 
> the inner blade on one of the contacts needs to be spread apart a bit with 
> a small jewelers screw driver. That is all It took here.  No more 
> problems.
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> Herb, KV4FZ
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> On 12/14/2013 6:24 PM, Magnus Aronsson wrote:
>> Hi
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>> My rotor controller has given up turning clockwise but works fine 
>> anti-clockwise.
>> I had the same problem about a year ago and changed the "right-button" to 
>> a new one.
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>> Now it happened again.
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>> Anyone had the same experiance and what could be the root cause?
>>
>> 73 de Magnus SM6WET
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