Which rotor to buy?
This is my current antenna setup: http://www.pa3guo.com/a7.jpg Basically, 6 ele for 145, 17 ele for 440, 23 ele for 1200, small quad for 23, and a multiband vertical. I am planning revise and clean this. AZI rotor kr400, 30 years old, 20 years by me, and 20 years in use. ELE rotor kr500, also 20 years in service. I know how to clean these rotors, but consider to replace the AZI rotor with a new one. Any advice? G450, seems less strong as the kr400. G650? G1000sdx or dxc? G5500? I do control these for sat tracking. Is variable speed in that case a disadvantage? Other thoughts? Here is a comparison table: http://kur02.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&... I tend towards a G650 which costs around 425 dollar here, the G1000 dxc is 600 dollar. -- Henk, PA3GUO
Henk, If you want to keep it straightforward simple and have it do everything you need, I would suggest the Yaesu G5500 with an LVB tracker. Has plenty of horsepower and fully controlled automatically through SatPC32. It's a plug-and-play set up.
Michael KC4ZVA Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2016, at 11:53 AM, PA3GUO [email protected] wrote:
This is my current antenna setup: http://www.pa3guo.com/a7.jpg Basically, 6 ele for 145, 17 ele for 440, 23 ele for 1200, small quad for 23, and a multiband vertical. I am planning revise and clean this. AZI rotor kr400, 30 years old, 20 years by me, and 20 years in use. ELE rotor kr500, also 20 years in service. I know how to clean these rotors, but consider to replace the AZI rotor with a new one. Any advice? G450, seems less strong as the kr400. G650? G1000sdx or dxc? G5500? I do control these for sat tracking. Is variable speed in that case a disadvantage? Other thoughts? Here is a comparison table: http://kur02.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&... I tend towards a G650 which costs around 425 dollar here, the G1000 dxc is 600 dollar. -- Henk, PA3GUO _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
I concur. I use G5500 with LVB tracker SatPC32 with IC910H. It is really a plug-and-play setup.
Dale,KL7Xj
On 5/23/2016 3:57 PM, Mvivona via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Henk, If you want to keep it straightforward simple and have it do everything you need, I would suggest the Yaesu G5500 with an LVB tracker. Has plenty of horsepower and fully controlled automatically through SatPC32. It's a plug-and-play set up.
Michael KC4ZVA Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2016, at 11:53 AM, PA3GUO [email protected] wrote:
This is my current antenna setup: http://www.pa3guo.com/a7.jpg Basically, 6 ele for 145, 17 ele for 440, 23 ele for 1200, small quad for 23, and a multiband vertical. I am planning revise and clean this. AZI rotor kr400, 30 years old, 20 years by me, and 20 years in use. ELE rotor kr500, also 20 years in service. I know how to clean these rotors, but consider to replace the AZI rotor with a new one. Any advice? G450, seems less strong as the kr400. G650? G1000sdx or dxc? G5500? I do control these for sat tracking. Is variable speed in that case a disadvantage? Other thoughts? Here is a comparison table: http://kur02.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&... I tend towards a G650 which costs around 425 dollar here, the G1000 dxc is 600 dollar. -- Henk, PA3GUO _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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