[ADXA] new hex beam rotator

[Scott Branyan]

Some of you may find this amusing, or some of you may be aghast :-). 
 
I have my hex in a temporary location until I can decide on a permanent spot
through experimentation. We just past the dogwood bloom season, so it
brought me delight to look out the kitchen window and see the hex with the
dogwood in the background. So far, the 10' mast in the stump (with a bucket
full of sand wedging it in place) is proving to be an excellent location
with little elevation needed. I tie it off on a branch stub on the side of
the stump which prevents it rotating in the wind. 
 
 
 
I've been turning the hex with gloved hands. Sometimes it is still very
difficult to turn in the wind. 
 
The other night, I was listing to some Caribbean hams talking, and they were
discussing their hesitancy about spending the money for a Yaesu rotator, and
one of them said, "Right, you just go outside and turn it with a pipe
wrench?" 
 
Well, I bought me a new rotator yesterday at Harbor Freight for $10.50 with
20% coupon--a nice lightweight, dedicated aluminum pipe wrench! Works
great!!!
 
 
 
Homebrew is fun!
 
73,
Scott/W5AAJ
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/adxa/attachments/20220501/da2a13b0/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: hex1.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1375714 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/adxa/attachments/20220501/da2a13b0/attachment-0001.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: hex rotator.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1301908 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/adxa/attachments/20220501/da2a13b0/attachment-0001.jpg>