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...

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

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:13:16 -0700, Bryan wrote:

It's a CDE T2X or "Tailtwister"

Ah, so it is the Tailtwister. I would have thought the Tailtwister would
have been bigger than that. (I wonder if it will even fit inside my Rohn
25G...)

Anyone know where I can get schematics for the control box? I emailed
HyGain / MFJ to see if I could purchase one but if I can build one that'll
likely be considerably cheaper...

Thanks...