[ADXA] bright ideas needed

[charles at mckenziemonuments.com]

I gave up on tail twisters and bought a Yaesu 2800 , and a heavier one 
if it fails.
I even hate to give the blinking twisters things away with all the 
issues I had with them!!
If you can stand the little extra an Antenna Genius is a great option, 
it will control 2
rotors, your direction indicator is a compass on the antennas boom. you 
need 2 wires to the
Rotor for power and a cat 5  or 6 to the compass. The genius needs a cat 
5 or 6 cable.
Thats what I am going to for both towers rotation controls. With a 
rotating tower a
piece of PVC attached to the tower just above head height will suffice.
73 KF5TL
Charles










On 2024-03-20 18:58, Dennis Schaefer wrote:
> My rotator quit indicating.  It rotates, but the pot in the motor unit
> has opened up.  I can run outside and see which way it is pointing,
> but that isn't very elegant, especially since my back and neck are
> still a little messed up.  I need a way to temporarily tell the
> direction until I get it fixed.
> 
> I thought about a camera, but the way our house is arranged, the only
> window I can put one in faces West and gets direct sun into the lens
> several hours a day.  Its a cheap camera, and it might not hurt
> anything, but it would make the camera unusable for that time.  I
> could probably get an outdoor-rated camera and point it somewhere out
> of direct sun.  That's the only real solution I can think of.
> 
> The antenna and rotator are on a Hazer that only comes down to the
> garage roof.  I can't climb on the roof anymore, so I think the Hazer
> is going to go away in favor of a more standard configuration.
> Someone who knows way more than I do is coming by later in the week
> and will advise me.
> 
> I will probably put the Force-12 C3 back up but I sure wish there was
> something I could do to make it work better, or at least have a better
> SWR, on 12 meters.  I guess a QRO antenna tuner would be the best
> option.  The 4.5 SWR on 12M doesn't make the amp very happy.  I have a
> Dentron tuner that is stout enough, but it does not have a bypass
> switch.  It would probably be easy to rig something with two switches,
> but that would have the possibility for accidentally running power
> into an open feed would always be there.  The C-3 has two direct
> coupled elements for 10 meters, and one is for operating FM above 28.9
> Mhz.  I wish I knew what would happen if I extended that element to
> make it resonate on 12 meters.  I plan to get help to get this all
> done in one shot, so I don't have the luxury of time for antenna
> experimentation.
> 
> Ideas or comments are welcome!
> 
> 73,
> Dennis
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