The beauty of the U-75, in my opinion, is that it is not too
directional, and therefore, not too picky about alignment.

Just toss it up, point it in the general direction of SF, and go watch
some TV. You should only need the rotor to watch Sacramento or Mt.
Diablo stations.




On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:16 PM, baumgrenze wrote:

> I have a Cornell Dubilier AR-22R rotor that needs rebuilding before it
> will run properly. It has bearing problems. I've found
> rotorservice.com. They seem to be out of touch for the holiday week.
>
> They describe it as follows: "AR-22 Rotor and Control - Designed to
> rotate large television antennas. Will support stacked arrays and deep
> fringe area antennas. Good for 3 sq. ft. of wind load." If they had a
> rebuilt one in inventory they would be asking $249 with the control
> and $199 without. I plan to have a large FM antenna on the same mast
> ~4' below the UFH.
>
> Has anyone successfully used an analog control rotor like this one? It
> appears to rotate in increments of one degree. Is this accurate enough
> to get good UHF HDTV reception on a directional antenna like my Archer
> Model U-75R? I am 28 miles from the Mt. Sutro tower. TVfool reports
> that I have a line of sight available here in Palo Alto.
>
> Thanks,
>
> baumgrenze
>
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