Yes you are right about it making the HamAm accessible Pat.  I 
too have gone over to wire and vertical antennas, and have no 
idea to whom I gave my old HamAm indicator.  Guess I'll just go 
howl at the moon, if and when I can find the direction where it 
is.  I don't even know the current phase.  Hmmh, I'm a bad dog 
bad dog! Jim WA6EKS

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From: Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]
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Date sent: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:42:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Audible rotor direction indicator

jim,
Handihams provided a very similar indicator.  I used one on a 
Ham-m
rotor for many years.  i put mine away after we moved and i moved 
in
to the wire antenna age; promised the indicator to someone on the
list and darned if I can find it again!!  i found it on a shelf 
one
week and when I went back for it again, it had vanished!!  I'm
guessing it was the man in the moon took it!  But it sure made 
the
Ham-m accessible.
pat, K9JAUAt 10:47 PM 4/18/2015, you wrote:
I don't think I have commented on this thread, but back in 1975,
I had a HamAm rotor that turned my HighGain TH6DXX 6 element
beam.  There was no way for a blind person to know the direction
the antenna was pointing because the rotor meter was of course
under glass and probably had a very small needle.  A friend at
the time, built a small device, seems it was a voltage controled
oscillator with a pointer knob on top that rotated freely 360
degrees.  I would set the pointer in the direction I wanted to
point the beam and hit the keys on the rotor.  When the tone in
the speaker inside the attached box nulled out, I knew I was
pointing northwest or where ever I needed to point.  I am not
aware of any similar audible rotor indicators out there today.
Jim WA6EKS