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

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David W Wood