[WT-support] Try PstRotatorsAz instead of wtRotators

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

W7UPF and others are having a lot of trouble getting wtRotators to work
properly with offsets.  Both wtRotators and wtRotators-dev 1.4.0 still have
a lot of bugs that have not been fixed yet.

Don discovered that there's another program named PstRotatorsAz by Codrut,
YO3DMU, that that you can use with Win-Test instead of wtRotators.

http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm

The interface looks very nice, complete with maps, memories, presets, and
click to turn.  I have not tried it myself yet.

Here are YO3DMU's set-up instructions for use with Win-Test, as relayed to
me by W7UPF:

Step one..first run the PstRotator program and go to Setup and select the
> rotor unit you are using or intend to use.    Next, Select My Locator and
> enter your Grid Location and press OK.  Next, still under Setup, select
> Azimuth Offset if your antenna is indeed off by some degree, if not then you
> are finished with Setup.  Go next to  proceed to Tracker and select
> Win-Test.   Last, under Mode select Track.
>
> This completes your setup for PstRotator  and now activate Win-Test and go
> to Options and under Configure Interfaces press Default for Broadcast and do
> the same for Port number.  Finally, check the Enable Ethernet Network box
> and press OK.  This completes system setup.


Then all you have to do is enter a prefix or beam heading in Win-Test and
press Ctrl-F12 (or Alt-F12 for Long Path) and PstRotators intercepts the
broadcast messages and does the rest.  You do not run wtRotators at all.

If you have more than one rotator, I think PstRotatorAz turns all of them to
the same heading.  Maybe YO3DMU will eventually add more features so that we
can specify which bands are covered by each rotator, and which stacks
include 90° offset bidirectional antennas such as rotary dipoles, as we can
do with wtRotators.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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