{"id":10135,"date":"2014-06-07T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/moxon-antenna-project-need-rotator-advice\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:54:54","slug":"moxon-antenna-project-need-rotator-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/moxon-antenna-project-need-rotator-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"MOXON Antenna Project &#8212; Need Rotator Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P1010063.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P1010062.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P1010062.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1402177016118_3352\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p> <strong>I&#8217;ve been put together a fishing pole MOXON antenna for 17 meters. It will be used with my 5 Watt BITX rig. I need something to spin it around. I know that many of the cheap TV rotators don&#8217;t hold up very well. I had one die quickly out in the Azores. There seems to be several brands out there, but the rotators and the control boxes look suspiciously similar. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_9_1402177016118_31\"> <strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_9_1402177016118_32\"> <strong>Is there any brand out there that is more robust and reliable than rest? <\/strong><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P1010063.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/P1010063.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>I came up with a pretty cool way of affixing the corners of the antenna elements to the fishing poles. That coil-like thing is the wire part of a bungee cord. It fits nicely into the end of the fiberglass pole.<\/strong> <strong>You have to be sure to get the pole length and the element dimensions properly proportioned, with a sufficient amount of bend in the poles.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been put together a fishing pole MOXON antenna for 17 meters. It will be used with my 5 Watt BITX rig. I need something to spin it around. I know that many of the cheap TV rotators don&#8217;t hold up very well. I had one die quickly out in the Azores. There seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/moxon-antenna-project-need-rotator-advice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOXON Antenna Project &#8212; Need Rotator Advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-antennas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}