[ADXA] rotators

[w5znjoel at gmail.com]

Dennis,

 

I have had four Yaesu rotors and can highly recommend them. They do not have a break wedge like the Ham-x rotors. The gears and gearing ratio is different, and significantly better, than the Hy-Gain Ham-x and T2X rotors and that provides the “break” for the system. I have had a G-800, two G-1000, and two G-2800’s. I had a G-800 as the rotor for my 17/12 meter JK Yagi and 30 meter JK Yagi (all on the same tower). It worked fine. I have since replaced it with a G-1000 for no other reason than I had one and wanted a larger rotor for those antennas. I now only have two Yaesu rotors in use here, the G-1000 just noted and a G-2800 rotating an M2 KT36XA and M2 6M9KHW. No issues to date. The Yaesu rotors only require five control wires. Two for the motor and three for the azimuth direction which, by the way, is soooooo much cleaner and smoother than the Hy-Gain pot readout.

 

I have no experience with the Yaesu rotor controllers so I can’t speak to those. I use the Green Heron controllers.

 

There is only one negative with the Yaesu rotors. It is my understanding you cannot buy parts for them. I have never needed to repair one and have never tried to order any parts, but that is what I’m told.

 

Opinions and preferences vary greatly, especially in amateur radio. My comments above are based on my experience with Yaesu rotors over the past 12 years. I completely stopped using Hy-Gain rotors at that time have none is use here.

 

73 Joel W5ZN

 

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 9:42 PM
To: ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [ADXA] rotators

 

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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