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E1143: Buddihex WIRELESS Rotor at Hamvention 2023

Jun 26, 20233 min
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Episode description

Buddipole is working on a new wireless rotor for rotating the Buddihex antenna - we get to catch up with John, W5EXJ, at the Buddipole booth during Hamvention 2023 for a demonstration. We're expecting to see this tool available later this year.

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We are here at him Benching twenty twenty three, and of course I'm at the Buddy Poole booth because as you guys know, I love the Buddy Poole products. We use a hex beam, the Buddy hex x beam every field day in winter field Day. And they've got a new addition for the Buddy heck to Day that we're going to talk to John about. He's one of the designers of this new feature. And so show us what we're looking at today, John. Okay, So the the mask works comes normal standard with

a hand crank. Correct and I've showed this in other videos. But go ahead, go ahead, and you turn it. It turns right right. And the new product that we're coming out with is the rotor, the wireless rotor just to the only connections on as a battery and the compass. The compass is up here at the top, just slides up on the top of the mast and this just comes off. This slides on and then you have

the interface to control it. Touch screens are finicky. There we go, okay and you can see it now that's cool and you can connect uh, this is this is connecting by Wi Fi at the moment but you can also connect using Bluetooth, Bluetooth Bluetooth or Wi Fi. And Randy was telling me yesterday the range on each of them are is about the same with three yes, and and the rotor also has the has built in the um yeay Zoo

Rotor protocol. So any application that you will do the Yazoo Rotor protocol for instance, like uh pst rot Rotator app can connect us and control the rotor as well. Good okay, So it's not a proprietary piece of software running that right, good awesome. Well, I know you guys have been working on that for a while, so I'm glad to see it kind of kind

to fruition today. Yeah, we're hoping uh sometime in the next and three to uh six months will be probably four months we'll be shipping okay product, And if you want to get on the list, Chris is setting up a waiting list waiting list for it, so just send him, send Chris a note to uh info at buddypoll dot com. Okay, the big the big ballet has been five zeros, but and that's affected everybody. Yeah, yeah, they're finally starting to kind of come back around, so okay, cool

man. Well, thanks for your time today. I hope you have a good show. Yeah, thanks for coming by. Yeah you bet.

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