[ADXA] rotator solution

[Dennis Schaefer]

Boring alert - this isn’t interesting to anyone but me…..   My VHF rotator
quit turning and it was a cable problem.  I didn’t look forward to finding
the break because the cable goes through a tunnel made of plastic gutters,
and then underground.   When I started looking at it, it took about 5
seconds to see where the jacket was cut, right outside the window at ground
level.   It was probably a weedeater incident.   Anyway, it’s fixed now
except for reinstalling the motor.

It’s a little late in the year to put the 6M yagi back up but that’s
probably what I’ll do.  With high sunspot numbers, I wonder if we’ll have
any F2 on 6M this fall and winter.   2M isn’t very exciting.   There is
very little CW or SSB activity, and I can easily work the same dozen or so
stations out to <>400 miles most mornings on FT8.   I don’t plan to put 432
back up either, at least for now

Just got Jarvis on 17M CW - not many callers.  Didn’t hear him well enough
on 12 CW to call.

73,
Dennis/RZ
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