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Review Summary For : MDS RC-1 Antenna Rotator Controller
Reviews: 28MSRP: 250
Description:
Digital Antenna Rotator Controller for HiGain Rotators (HAM-M, HAM-IV, Tailtwister) Yeasu, and other antenna rotators
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.mds-ham.com
# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
00284.4
W1JCW Rating: 2012-11-24
Nice product / great service. Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Very nice product, specially for the money. Glen worked with me on the weekend to clear up a couple of installation questions. I had the product interface with my PC and working manual in about an hour. It was easy to install and wire up the jones plug.
KG5VK Rating: 2012-10-07
Outstanding product Fantastic support Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
This product is only surpassed by the Outstanding customer support.
Several of us in our area wanted a slower rotation of our long boom Yagi's and we asked the MDS Team
They provided us a slightly cheaper model of the RC-1 that will turn our long boom yagi even slower
than normal.
MDS is a company that that makes Ham's thrilled to deal with other Ham's !!!

Steve
KG5VK
N5AGY Rating: 2012-03-14
Outstanding Replacement for G-800 DXA Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
The MDS RC-1 is a very nice controller. I have a Yaesu G-800 DXA that is operational, I just got tired of the amount of noise it generated, in addition to light replacement quite frequently. This unit is just fantastic. Very easy to see, quite small so I can keep it on my desk as opposed to on a separate shelf. Makes no noise while in operation and just works very well. Very satisfied.
N5AGY
AL7HG Rating: 2011-08-13
Initially great Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
My Yaesu rotor was fried by lightning so I bought this as an alternative. I have had this for a week and so far it is much smoother to operate than the Yaesu box. Easy to see and actually a lot faster response than the older ones. I have poor vision and can actually see this across the room.

I have two towers with two Yaesu rotors. They are sending me a connector to enable it to be used with the older Yaesu plugs. I might even buy a second one of these for my other rotor!
W0ZS Rating: 2011-02-23
Decent rotor controller Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I use this with DX4Win and Writelog and it works great. It's nice to hit a key and have it automatically turn to the direction of the DX! It has a nice bright display. I use mine with a Ham IV and use the power supply from the controller to power the MDS. Very nice product.
AB4SA Rating: 2009-12-30
Excellent product right out of the box Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Just put my RC-1 into service running my 1000sdx rotor. Directions and setup were stright forward. I gave it a 5 because over all I have had no issues from box to installation to controling rotator. I use rotator to turn 3el A3s beam. I would purchase this item again and MDS folks were very nice to work with.
W2FBS Rating: 2008-09-25
Nice Controller Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
I bought this at Dayton this year and they shipped it home for me. Nice people to work with. I have the Yaesu version and it works great with my 800 series rotor. The readout is big and bright and the point to shoot is easy to use. The computer controlled positioning works well with Ham Radio Deluxe.
Having a method to build in your local declination is great too.

My only complaints are that the refreshing of the directional LCD flashes very apparently and is sometimes disturbing and the unit itself is rather small , which is good, but skids around on the desk top. A good unit at a price far less than a replacement Yaesu control box, if you can find one. I would recommend it.
WN5V Rating: 2008-07-24
Good product - still needs a bit of work to achieve perfection Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Pro's - easy to install, works right out of the box. If you don't have one of the newer HiGAIN rotators, you may have to put a Jones plug on the controller cable.

Con's - Still needs a bit of work. New product - for HiGain, only tested by factory on HAM II rotator. On my Tailwister, had a bit of problem turning it to desired direction, but did get there with a little bit of persuasion (additional clicks on the computer graphic controller display). Interfaces with all computer programs that use the HiGAIN DCU1 communications protocol.