Anmother possibility would be a clean used TR44.  I think that it is more
rugged than any TV intended rotor, but I believe that they are pretty cheap
on the used market.

HTH/73


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 3:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tv roters for beam antennas

I used to have a 25 element beam for 2 meters, way overkill since at the 
time I actually did want to get on the band, and even that was not heavy. I 
had it on a real light rotor and it had no problem. I could hole that beam 
up when I put it up one handed while mounting it with the other hand, that's

how light it was so I can't imagine one less than half that size would need 
much.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: tv roters for beam antennas


>I suspect he was thinking cheap and easy lol.
> a ten element 2M beam probably weighs 5lbs with a wind load of less than 1
> sq ft.
> Use one small thrust bearing on a piece of push up, with the rotator at 
> the
> bottom, and it might turn a bit slower, but it'll do the job nicely with a
> small TV antenna rotator.
> The trick with the needle on the control box is a good one...though isn't 
> it
> kind of easy to knock it out of whack?
>
> I've got one of those sitting downstairs that needs new caps or something.
> Then again, it might work fine.  The old fella had it up for over 30 years
> and said it wasn't working quite right.  When we took everything down, the
> connecters for the rotator cable and the terminals on the rotator itself
> were very very badly corroded.
> So I've got the 48FT medium duty tower, the 4 element cushcraft a4s and 
> ham
> IV rotator and no where to put it all up haha.
> 73
> Colin, VA6bkx