Usually, I set the rotor to North, go up the tower with a pipe wrench, loosen the mast to rotor connection, use the pipe wrench to reset the mast in the correct direction, retighten and climb down.

FUV

On Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 07:39:55 AM CDT, Stan Stockton <[email protected]> wrote:


Assume you are confident the mast didn’t slip in the clamp on the rotator or that it is pinned with no possibility of that happening?

Stan

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> On Sep 6, 2024, at 7:22 PM, J. Setcer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> I'll tell you the long story... I think you guys jinxed me.
>
> For years I used Ham IV rotors with good success. (One at my house, two at K5BAT.)
> About 2 years ago the brake finger broke off in my Ham IV at home.
> A friend gave me 2 tail twisters. He said one was good, one was bad. He switched to a Yaesu 1000.
> The good T2X has served me well for 2+ years.
> About the time you guys started talking badly about the HyGain Rotors,
> all of a sudden  my Yagis are about 45 degrees off the indicator. It turns lock-to-lock. Held steady in the wind storms today. It just isn't pointed where the control box says.
> -- I eyeball pointed them toward Europe & I'll leave it there until I figure out what to do.
> No End to this story...
> N5QJ
> <tower mine.jfif>
>
>
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