Anyone remember and use the old Aliance AR22?  Big knob with perhaps 
sixty detents; set that puppy and the rotor box would click away 
until the antenna got where you had set the knob.  Light duty but I 
turned a forty foot push up pole, bracketed at the eaves and a thrust 
bearing at the bracket and turned a three element ten meter beam 
through several winters.  And with the rotor near ground level you 
could swap it out easily when it got tired!!
Pat, K9JAUAt 09:09 PM 8/9/2012, you wrote:
>Wow!  I remember when Channelmaster rotators had a very simple control box
>with a large round dial with a vertical line along one edge which served as
>a pointer.  You could easily put braille labels around the face to designate
>compass directions (or anything else you wanted to use for marking).
>Unfortunately, I don't remember the model number of the rotator.
>
>Steve
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 16:17
>Subject: Re: rotator?
>
>
> > Colin,
> >
> > I'm using a Channel Master  9521A.    This has been up since 2004  and
> > seems to still be around, although the price has gone up since that
> > time.  Looks like now over $100.
> >
> > It has a small control box with  3 digit red led display that someone
> > with some usable vision may be able to see.
> >
> > On the box are   cc and ccw  buttons and a syncronize button.   It has
> > an IR remote control which has  a keypad as well as cc and ccw buttons.
> >   You can enter a 3 digit number in the remote (from 000 to 360) and it
> > will go there.   There is no way to tell where you are pointed except by
> > good memory or lucky guess.   There is an ability to enter  presets to
> > go to  often used headings, but I've never used that feature.
> >
> > It uses a very light 3 conductor wire, almost like a phone line.  No
> > brake in the unit I think it will auto sync after a particular number of
> > uses, if you don't sync manually.
> >
> > I'm actually using this to turn a 2 element tribander.  2 elements of a
> > Mosley TA-33 on a very short (4 ft) boom).  All this on a 20 ft.
> > telescoping mast.   A pretty third rate HF antenna, but I work the world
> > with it.  This is really overdoing it for that rotor, but it's still up
> > there and still turns the antenna until I can come up with something
> > better.   Actually have a Ham IV here, but not enough supporting
> > structure at this time.
> >
> > 73, Steve KW3A
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/2012 3:33 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> >> someone on list mentioned a rotator quite a while back that was fairly
> >> accessible.  I think it was a TV roter, but the control box had a key pad
> >> where you could enter headings in degrees, as well as memory storage
> >> buttons
> >> along with the regular left/right arrow function to move the antenna.
> >> What was the brand and model of that roter or perhaps it's most recent
> >> version?
> >> A VI friend wants to put up an FM broadcast band beam for receiving, and
> >> would prefer to have a roter control box that has some basic
> >> accessibility.
> >> He is also looking for recommendations on places to buy FM broadcast
> >> receiving directional antennas.
> >> Rad shack is no longer in canada so that's not an option.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Colin, V A6BKX
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >