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Old August 13th 07, 01:13 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Bryan Bryan is offline
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Default Can you help identify this rotator?


Rick (W-A-one-R-K-T) wrote:

I found a rotator in some of my silent-key father's stuff and I'm trying
to identify it. There is no control box (yet ... it may still be around
here someplace) and if I can't find it I'll want to try to buy another

one.

See the following URLs:

http://www.rkt-tech.com/rotator/DSCF0002.JPG
http://www.rkt-tech.com/rotator/DSCF0003.JPG
http://www.rkt-tech.com/rotator/DSCF0004.JPG
http://www.rkt-tech.com/rotator/DSCF0005.JPG
http://www.rkt-tech.com/rotator/DSCF0006.JPG

The first one shows the rotator sitting next to a plastic gallon milk jug,
for size comparison.

The rest show different views of the rotator.

It looks like maybe a Ham-M or Ham-IV, but my dad also had one of those US
Towers crank-up masts, where the whole mast gets rotated, and it seems he
had a Tailtwister to turn that ... but this doesn't look big enough to be
a Tailtwister.

Any ideas what it might be and where I can get a control box for it?

Thanks...

It's a CDE T2X or "Tailtwister": http://www.rigpix.com/rotators/rotators.htm
and http://www.rotordoc.com/history.html
73,
Bryan WA7PRC