[Hammarlund] Yaesu Rotor Problem

[Roy Morgan]

At 03:15 PM 5/7/2007, K0DAN wrote:
>After I wrote you, I started thinking about that 35 year old cable. Hope 
>you do get a "good day" to climb, but I'm putting my money on that old 
>cable being really crappy.

RF Connections has rotor cable in a variety of types:
www.therfc.com
To go direct:
http://www.therfc.com/rotor.htm

Roy





>  One of the cables (some allegedly high quality neoprene coated thing) 
> which controls the limit switches on my motoroized tower is only about 7 
> years old and the outside jacket is cracked and the inner leads are also 
> cracked and frayed, and the twisted copper wire shows signs of corrosion 
> and moisture. So much for it being high quality cable!
>
>Good luck.
>
>dt
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
>To: "K0DAN" <k0dan at comcast.net>; "Barry Fox" <foxbw at comcast.net>; 
><hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:37 AM
>Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Yaesu Rotor Problem
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>>It isn't that I don't want to climb, but that I suffer
>>from rhuematoid arthritis and and it has become
>>difficult for me to climb.  I used to climb all the
>>time.  I am hoping for a "good day" or two so that I
>>can get up the tower.  Fortunately, I don't have to go
>>all the way to the top to get to the rotor.
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>>Since the tower is "house bracketed" as well as guyed
>>the rotor is only about 35 feet above the roof.
>>
>>Keep your fingers crossed!
>>
>>If the entire rotor had to be replaced I think that I
>>would "live" with the problem for a while.
>>
>>Glen, K9STH
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>>--- K0DAN <k0dan at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>I a\seem to remember reading that you were loathe to
>>climb...I can understand. However, a connector
>>clean-up or even a cable replacement beats the
>>alternative of replacing the whole damn rotor. This
>>message was meant to paint the glass as 1/2
>>full....hope I succeeded.
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>>Glen, K9STH
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>>Website:  http://k9sth.com
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