David,

I use a ham4 and the Handiham indicator.  Something that would improve that
situation would be great.  There are lots and lots of the HamM series
rotators out there!!

Pat Byrne, K9JAUAt 12:41 PM 9/23/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello Bill
>
>Long time no hear and sorry to hear of your indisposition earlier in the
>year.
>
>at the moment, I am purely assessing whether their is any market for a
>device.
>
>Their is a product on the market which is marketed in the U.K. by Vine
>Antennas (GW3YDX) where for an extra 100 pounds sterling you can input
>direction with a keypad.
>
>Several others are on the market as you describe with either parallel or
>serial interfaces.
>
>I have a friend who thinks that he may be able to make a box on a paying
>hobby basis - possibly with speech or CW output.
>
>I thought that this was a good place to start with a market survey!
>
>By the way it was nice to hear W4CI on the air last weekend but just as
>the band was closing so didn't work Dave.
>
>de G3YXX
>
>
>
>In message <[log in to unmask]>, Bill O'Kain
><[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Hi David.  Yes, tell me more.  For 15 years, I have been using a mosley
>>Pro-Search computerized talking control unit with my HDR300 hygain rotor.
>>This talking unit quit talking although it would still turn the rotor.  I
>>sent it back to Mosley and they coundn't repair it as they can no longer get
>>the replacement audio chips from Intel.  I have just installed a Yaesu
>>1000dxa rotor replacing the defective HDR300 and have an interface from
>>Idiom Press which I hope to get installed today or tomorrow and be able to
>>give commands from the keyboard of my PC and read the beam bearings with my
>>voice synthisizder on the computer.  Perhaps you know of an easier fix or
>>something that would be helpful.
>>
>>161 Bill k4lta
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "David W Wood" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 5:48 PM
>>Subject: talking rotator
>>
>>
>>> any interest in a device which can plug into the serial or parallel port
>>> of the control box?
>>> Speech output for direction in degrees?
>>> --
>>> David W Wood
>
>--
>David W Wood
>
>