Price: $96.00
(as of Dec 11, 2024 04:38:08 UTC - Details)

Fine tune your outdoor antenna from inside your home with the RCA VH226F Programmable Outdoor Antenna Rotator with remote control. Using its programmable memory, you can set up to 12 TV/FM station presets for automatic antenna positioning. The motor drive provides wind stability by locking in place for a stable antenna. Use the digital display to choose a preset and position the antenna during operation. This unit includes a remote for adjusting the antenna from inside your home.
Set up to 12 TV for FM stations for automatic antenna positioning with the programmable memory
Infrared remote control allows you to fine tune your outdoor antenna easily from inside your home for a perfect picture
Digital display indicates preset and antenna position during operation
Reviewer: Scott
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great update from my older rotor controller.
Review: My older controller had the simple dial control, this one has a remote and is programable. I did not replace it for this feature but was happy about it. I replaced it because my old rotor would not hold my antenna in the position I selected, the wind would move it. This new controller works perfect and holds my giant antenna where I point it. Read the instructions for setting it up, you have to initialize it, and calibrate it before you can use it. I use this rotor to control my DXing antenna. So I can set button A for Detroit, B for Lansing, C for Flint etc... really handy.

Reviewer: CLM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solid, simple, and durable!
Review: Using for 6 meter Moxon and 2 meter Yagi antennas. Works well and withstands Oklahoma storms and the winds sweeping down the plains! Have had up through tornadic storm with 80 mph winds, ice storm, and sustained 50-55mph winds during spring. No damage seen to the braking system and works very well. Much cheaper option than ham rotator and can handle 3 sq ft of antenna well.UPDATE: Have now been through 91mph wind gusts of 4-5 seconds with 15 min of sustained 65-70mph winds and still doing well. Oklahoma is lovely during Spring and early summer:) My rotator is mounted on a well guyed aluminum flag pole of 26’ above ground and 30” below ground in concrete. This has been my 6m/2m mast for 2 years now and through countless storms. Everything works well. I do annual maintenance checks on the system and tighten, reseal, etc. I remain happy with this system..UPDATE Mar 2023: Changed antennas to an Eantenna 2850 6m/10m Moxon and a Create 108-1300MHz Log Periodic just over 1 year ago. The RCA rotor is handling the heavier load and increased wind load very well. No issues at all, despite severe storms with 70-80mph wind gusts and hours of steady 30 mph Oklahoma winds with frequent gusts up to 50 mph. For the techies, my total antenna & mast weight is 9.6 kg and the wind load is 0.21 m sq. My other RCA rotator system for my LEO VU satellite array is also holding up equally well. These rotators have been a very cost-effective investment for my ham station and should handle just about any residential TV antenna on the market.

Reviewer: william basye
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rotor from my beams
Review: I had acquired a set of beams for my c. B radio I needed a rotor the apparatus. It turns my antenna, my beams to what direction I need works. Great, fantastic, very satisfied. Great price

Reviewer: Bryan Welsh
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It works very well BUT, there is something you should know
Review: The unit appears very well built and functions as advertised with one exception that depends on your TV. The literature on the unit indicates that it has 12 memory locations that you can use to find and store antenna locations that are optimum for your reception area. And this is true, BUT:If you have a TV (like ours) that cannot permanently store the digital channels then there is no way to use this, or any, antenna positioner without rescanning the channels each time you move the antenna. If this was the old days of analog TV, it would work great as the channel numbers are locked in.We have an "older" Samsung flatscreen TV, probably 8 years old or so. Like all digital TVs, you hit the auto-scan and it finds all the channels it can for the given antenna position. Then if you move the antenna (manually or with this remote device) you scan again which erases all the previously found channels and populates the list with the new found channels. I did a lot of research to see if there was a way to lock them in and found none. I tried saving the channels as favorites, but these got erased also when doing a new scan.So, if you have a TV that can properly store the channels, or just want a remote positioner for that convenience, I think it works very well. If you want to use the position memory function to quickly move from one station to another and your TV can't permanently store the channels, then you will have to scan each time you rotate the antenna. And that doesn't work for me.

Reviewer: Debra Martel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to use
Review: Reception is great. If the picture does not come in, Move the the dial.Easy to work.

Reviewer: Sagefreeman
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Garbage Manufacturing
Review: Garbage manufacturing! The pot metal rotor drive housing is so poorly cast the bolts have to be firmly persuaded to grip the threads - careful you don't bend those flimsy bolts trying to secure them. Then you may need to remove the motor and reversing switch for three important reasons. Firstly, 4 motor screws will come loose and chew up the gears as they do not have any LocTite on threads nor lock washers. I recommend both. Second, with motor and reversing switch removed rotate the mast rotor 360° to make sure it does not bind. My unit was very bad out of round. It would turn 270° and then scrape and jitter in one section. You need snap-ring pliers to disassemble the rotor. Third, once the snap ring, reversing indicator, and spring washer are removed you will want to actually put some grease on the gears. The factory only put one finger's worth on one part of one gear - pitiful!. Don't worry about it being too loose that the wind will it move freely there are other factors that tension the rotor. Now seat the rotor back into the housing gears and rotate it with your hands. Does it rub or jitter? Carefully bend, file, sand those places that rub - not too vigorously or the pot metal cast may crack. What blind engineer decided to block the wire entrance with the hinged bottom cover? Garbage manufacturing!

Reviewer: cesar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Me llego muy rápido, el producto tal cual en el anuncio. Satisfecho

Reviewer: Jan
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Zit een Amerikaanse stekker en staat 110 volt op.

Reviewer: michel
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Qualité prix et Montage facile très bien ; mais le gros problème cet que le bloque commande fonctionne en 110 V ? Donc achat en plus d'un transfo d'isolement 110v/230v

Reviewer: Paul B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This was purchased to turn a 4 element 2m quad ham radio antenna.It arrived quicker than expected, well boxed and full instructions.You will need a drop Down adapter from 240v to 110v for around 10.00.Cable is 3 core mains. Available at the local store.Very, very quiet, turns with ease!Program it to all the directions and your fine.You don't even have to do that you can use the remote to control it manually.Excellent value at a yaesu rotator that's overkill for light weight 2m antennas.2e0rte.

Reviewer: Hector
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Funciona de maravilla con una antena direccional de Vhf/UHF.