A 450-degree rotation range is a good feature. Actually, when using the
Idiom Press controller, they try to avoid the limit switches by turning the
antenna through about a 345-degree range. Of course, for DX, you put your
end stops at South so that you can easily get from northwest to northeast.
You still have the same issue when switching from Central America to Brazil
if the end points are at south.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Wheaton, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Accessible Roatators
>
> The one advantage to the Yaesu rotors, I think they have at least a 450
> degree rotation. I always hated it when I was pointed northwest on my
> ham-sp and wanted to swing northeast for Europe and had to rotate 300
> degrees around.
>
> Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:10 AM
> Subject: FW: Accessible Roatators
>
>
> > Yes, I could do those things. And sometimes I get a little carried away
> > in
> > aiming the antenna precisely at a station. So I haven't bothered.
> >
> > Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> > Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> > Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: colin McDonald [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:59 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Accessible Roatators
> >
> > hmmm, shouldn't be hard to find a small chicken head knob and put sticky
> > dots, or a dab of glue that will harden into a dot at the east and west
> > points on the pannel behind the knob?
> > I'm sure you thought of that, but it might make it easier to get to
> those
> > directions more quickly and with some greater certainty.
> > 73
> > Colin, V A6BS
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: Accessible Roatators
> >
> >
> >> The stock knob is about a quarter inch in diameter, and there isn't a
> lot
> >> of
> >> room for a larger knob. We filed a notch in the knob. Since the
> >> potentiometer doesn't cover the full 360 degrees, but only about 300,
> >> north
> >> is straight up, both south directions are at the extremes of the range,
> >> but
> >> east and west are a little above horizontal. So you can only
> >> approximately
> >> set directions.
> >>
> >> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> >> Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> >> Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Ed Malmgren [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:43 PM
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: Accessible Roatators
> >>>
> >>> Howdy Lloyd How accrate is the pointer on the cal. knob? For
> >>> example
> >>> is straight up north and south at
> >>> the ends. tnx and 73Ed K7UC
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------------------------
> >>> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:31 PM
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Subject: Re: Accessible Roatators
> >>>
> >>> > I turn my KT34XA with a Tailtwister rotor. The control box is the
> >>> > type
> >>> > made
> >>> > by Hy-Gain for probably the last 50 years. It has a paddle switch
> for
> >>> its
> >>> > AC power, three spring-loaded switches mounted side-by-side for
> >>> > directional
> >>> > control and brake control, and a small potentiometer for calibrating
> >>> > the
> >>> > directional indicator. I had W3MC install an Idiom Press control
> >>> > board
> >>> > inside it. This adds brake delay, and the knob's function is
> changed
> >>> > so
> >>> > that you can turn it toward the direction you want, then tap the
> >>> > center
> >>> > button and the rotor will go to that direction. For more precise
> >>> control,
> >>> > this board also has a serial interface. I have this hooked to my PC
> >>> > through
> >>> > a USB-to-serial adapter, and it is controlled and read by N1MM. I
> >>> > never
> >>> > got
> >>> > the Ham Radio Deluxe rotor interface to work properly with
> >>> > Window-Eyes,
> >>> so
> >>> > when I am running the net and telling you that I am pointing to 240
> >>> > degrees,
> >>> > etc., N1MM is running. I don't use N1MM to log the net, however,
> >>> finding
> >>> > that Notepad works fine for that.
> >>> > 73,
> >>> > Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Wheaton, Maryland
> >>> > Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> >>> > Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> >> ...
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