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[KB6Y]

I'm looking to setup a remote station and need to purchase a rotor that can be remoted. Suggestions for, or problems encountered?

[K9AQ]

I use a Yaesu GMDXA1000.  Yaesu rotors have a port for a computer interface.  It requires either the optional Yaesu interface box, or a 3rd party.  I replaced my Yaesu controller with an MDS RC1 rotor, which is available from MFJ.  I replaced the Yaesu rotor box because the computer interface started acting flaky.  I then use PstRotor software for the computer control.

Don
K9AQ

[K1UO]

Actually just about any rotor can be used.  I use a Yaesu GS1000 with the Green Heron Engineering server  to just about any type/Model rotor.Control but the Green Heron controller can be interfaced to just about any rotor.

[W6IR]

You can use just about any rotor with the ERC board available from vibroplex.com.

[W4KVW]

How you control the rotor is far more important than the rotor itself.It does NOT require an expensive control box such as a Green Heron either for most any of them.

Clayton
W4KVW

[W9AC]

Get a rotator that will handle the antenna load and ensure that it's listed as a supported model in PstRotator software, the world's greatest software ever written.

My remote station uses a pair of K7NV reworked prop-pitch rotators with M2 PCX controllers.  The controllers are heavily modified to better withstand lightning damage.  There's a description of the changes on my QRZ.com page.

Paul, W9AC