[TowerTalk] Fwd: Fast, cheap, and or good... Pick two.

[Don]

My Mazda RX-8 has a rotor, my tower has a rotator. My plumber has a rotor 
rooter!!

Do I turn (or rotate?) an antenna (or an aerial)? I suspect aerial came 
first. How did it transform into what we commonly now call an antenna?

The American language is so interesting when it comes to words and language 
(good native Leeds, England born friend says it isn't English!!!). No wonder 
for those where American is a second language they get looked at funnily 
from time to time.


Don W7WLL
-----Original Message----- 
From: Matthew King - KK4CPS
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 3:24 PM
To: TowerTalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Fast, cheap, and or good... Pick two.

To this reasonably new ham (2011), it looks like the antenna would be the
"rotor" and the thing that spins it would be the "rotator." Hy-Gain and
Yaesu seem to agree on their websites, as they call the devices that turn
antennas "rotators."  Maybe they've always been that way?

Just a thought....

Matt King
KK4CPS

ro·tor
ˈrōdər/
*noun*

   1. a rotary part of a machine or vehicle, in particular:
   - a hub with a number of radiating airfoils that is rotated in an
      approximately horizontal plane to provide the lift for a rotary-wing
      aircraft.
      - the rotating assembly in a turbine, especially a wind turbine.



ro·ta·tor
ˈrōˌtātər/
*noun*

   1. *a thing that rotates or that causes something to rotate.*
   - ANATOMY
      a muscle whose contraction causes or assists in the rotation of a
      part of the body.


On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <
towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

> Cheers!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
> To: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 3, 2015 6:04 pm
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fast, cheap, and or good... Pick two.
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> ....... antenna and rotor (when exactly did rotors become rotators?
>    (Maybe about the time all problems became issues?)
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> "Rotator" is not even in my spelling verifier.
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> Hans - N2JFS
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