Look, No hands

• April 9, 2017
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• RT-21D  

With me just turning half a century old (50) I made my life easier at the desk of my ham station.

I have always eyed my dad’s (N6XT) Green Heron RT-21 so I have been on the look out for one to be had for quite some time. So a little over a week before my birthday I spotted a RT-21D posted on swap.qth.com that was almost half the cost of a new unit. Like any good ham operator I did my due diligence to verify the seller was legit. Everything was on the up and up and I became the proud owner of the RT-21D.

A simple reconfiguration of the controller (original owner was using it with a Yaesu rotor) to work with my Ham-IV, hooking up the pigtail and I was in business. Added the rotor configuration to both DXLab’s DXView and to N1MM+’s rotor application without issue (both authors have awesome documentation on their websites. Quick test with both to ensure everything was optimal and working properly and I was in business.

Now I have both hands free to work contacts and no longer require holing my arm to move my antenna. A big thanks go out to:

• My dad (N6XT) for the assistance
• Jeff over at Green Heron Engineering for answering all my questions and dealing with my impatience.

Hope to see you down the log.

73 de KF5JRA
Ron