[ADXA] rotators

[Dennis Schaefer]

A local friend needs a new rotator.  He is looking at a Yaesu G-800.  He
recently almost lost everything in 80 MPH winds and we had two similar
storms within a week.  He wants to make sure he gets something with a good
brake.   The Yaesu rotators say the braking system is “mechanical and
electrical stopper”.   No one seems to know what that means.  I guess it is
somewhere between the steel wedge in the Ham-X rotators and relying on the
motor gears to resist windmilling like some of the low end rotators seem to
do.

Anyone have any words of wisdom I can pass along to him?   The antenna is a
small tribander, so he will probably be OK.

73,
Dennis/RZ
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