[TowerTalk] rotor or rotator

[Bill Turner]

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On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 20:50:58 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

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>Ham 55 years. Hrd them called both all these years.
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>K9IL

REPLY:

I have too, but only rotator is correct. A rotor is a device that
itself rotates, such as the moving part in an electric motor. A
rotator is a device that causes something else to rotate but itself is
stationary. 

73, Bill W6WRT