Mike: My advice is to go with Hy-Gain. A friend of mine across town had
his Yaesu G-800 rotator destroyed the same way you described, while in the
same storm, my Hy-Gain Ham-V, mounted external of the tower with about the
same load, survived with no problems.
Ron, N6AHA
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>A decision I have to make now is to I replace the Rotor or install
>another brand of rotor . which will entail a lot of tower work .
>I would be most interested to hear from any other YAESU G-800SDX users
>that has experienced any form of problems as this will help me decide on
>the next route to take .
>Thank you one and all for taking the time to read this .
> Respectfully
> Michael Holley VE7AVM
> e mail address <mholley@quik.com>
>73 - Michael, VE7AVM @ VE7KIT
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