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

[Patrick Greenlee]

Hans, There is merit to the info provided re rotor-rotator.  I think it 
borrows from the use of rotor vs stator as in an alternator or motor.   
There is merit to the idea that a rotator is something that rotates or 
rotates another object but ditto rotor.

Maybe I was being too old fashioned.  I never heard the term rotator 
applied to rotating a TV antenna, but instead always heard rotor. Hmmm 
maybe there should have been Alliance Tenna Rotator vice Tenna Rotor. ;) ;)

I guess we'll have to "train" our spell checkers.

My current take is that both communicate unambiguously in our context.  
I prefer to follow the "typesetter's rule" the one using the least 
printer's ink is the correct one. ;)  ;)

Best to you this New Year and to your electronic antenna positioning system!

Patrick     NJ5G


On 1/3/2015 5:15 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
> Cheers!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
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> 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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