I found a nice replacement for the Hygain rotor control box.
MDS out of Ga.
http://www.mds-ham.com/
The box is very nice, point and shoot, computer control port with HRD and
others plus many features that are programmed by the user.
I have two and they work great. Very nice over the brake release, ccw or cw
hold down buttons.
Just a thought.
73-
W1JCW
John
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
larryjspammenot@teleport.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:39 PM
To: RMorris; Jim W7RY
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hy-Gain Rotor Control Boxes
Norm's Rotor Service web page used to have a lot of info about the various
Ham-M and later rotors and the associated control boxes. I had him rebuild
an original HAM-M rotor years ago when he was in Rockville MD while I was on
a business trip there. I used a later HAM III series control box with it,
instead of the original little brown bakelite controller with no separate
brake switches. It turned a big Telrex TB6EM yagi for many years. The yagi
finally fell apart, but the rotor is still fine, last time we tried it.
LJ
-----Original Message-----
>From: RMorris <robrk@nidhog.net>
>Sent: May 15, 2014 3:09 AM
>To: Jim W7RY <w7ry@centurytel.net>
>Cc: "<towertalk@contesting.com>" <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hy-Gain Rotor Control Boxes
>
>My fifty year old Ham-M with the brown slopped control works fine with the
metal one.
>Schematics should on line somewhere.... BAMA ?
>
>Thirty years ago, thought the movers lost the control box. Built one from
the junk box.
>After buying the metal one at a hamfest, the old one turned up in a
"kitchen" box that was not opened for five years.
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On May 14, 2014, at 21:01, "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there any difference in the old Hy-Gain metal cased rotor controllers
and the newer black plastic controllers?
>>
>> Thanks
>> 73
>> Jim W7RY
>>
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