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Agreed about the ice, except the reference to a beam. I have never had ice prevent my rotator from swinging the antennas. Rotator used was a CD-45 so not a real big one. I doubt my next rotator will have ANY issues either. With ANY luck my antenna system will be COMPLETELY gone over this summer and replaced with a Yaesu G-2800DXA at the top. It should turn a small house actually. This looks like the motor drive unit is like a screwdriver motor. Not very fast and pretty good torque which helps to retract the antenna but nothing for unreeling it out. With a starting price of a thousand dollars..........I'll pass on it although it has given me some to think about as I clean up my crap and look for pulleys, motors and wire. Who knows, when I eventually get some free time I might even try and throw one together for giggles.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 852406, member: 39"] Agreed about the ice, except the reference to a beam. I have never had ice prevent my rotator from swinging the antennas. Rotator used was a CD-45 so not a real big one. I doubt my next rotator will have ANY issues either. With ANY luck my antenna system will be COMPLETELY gone over this summer and replaced with a Yaesu G-2800DXA at the top. It should turn a small house actually. This looks like the motor drive unit is like a screwdriver motor. Not very fast and pretty good torque which helps to retract the antenna but nothing for unreeling it out. With a starting price of a thousand dollars..........I'll pass on it although it has given me some to think about as I clean up my crap and look for pulleys, motors and wire. Who knows, when I eventually get some free time I might even try and throw one together for giggles. [/QUOTE]

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