[ADXA] new hex beam rotator

[Rory Bowers]

And you will have softer hands for your wife!  Good buy Scott!
Rory, K5CKS

On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:10 PM Scott Branyan <sbranyan at cox.net> wrote:

> Some of you may find this amusing, or some of you may be aghast :-).
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> 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.
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> I've been turning the hex with gloved hands. Sometimes it is still very
> difficult to turn in the wind.
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> 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?"
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> 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!!!
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> Homebrew is fun!
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> 73,
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> Scott/W5AAJ
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