[WT-support] Rotator Control

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Rotator support in Win-Test is fully documented here.

http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Rotators

Note that there is no place to change the COM port baud rate or other
settings; they are hard-coded based on rotator type, so your LVB Tracker
must use exactly the same baud rate and other COM port settings as a real
Yaesu, and it must emulate the rotator completely.

If you are using a USB-to-Serial converter to control your rotator rather
than a "real" serial port, and the converter it is based on the the
"Prolific" chip set, this could also be the problem.  Try a USB-to-Serial
convert based on the FTDI chip set instead.

Finally, make sure to try the latest version of wtRotators, version
1.4.0-dev, which you can download here:

http://download.win-test.com/wtRotators/nightly/

If none of the above apply, replace wtRotators with PstRotatorsAz by
YO3DMU<http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm>;
it is reported to work much better with various hardware than wtRotators,
and it is 100% compatible with Win-Test if properly configured.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, John Wayman <g4drs at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have just built a LVB Tracker rotator control box. It emulates a Yaesu
> controller and uses the GS232 command set.
> It works fine with Logger32, but I can't get it to work with WT.
> The small rotator window comes up and, when I click 'Initialise' in the
> wt-rotator window, the small green icon 'CON' lights up briefly, but only
> for a couple of seconds. If I right-click on the rotator window and select a
> bearing, 30 degrees, for example, the wt-rotator window shows a message like
> 'turning rotator 1 to 30 degrees'. The rotator does not move, however.
> If I close WT and run L32, it works just fine.
> Does anyone have this combination working? If so, what am I doing wrong? I
> have tried everything I can think of, but no luck so far. Correction, the
> only thing I have thought of and not tried is whether the contest type
> affects whether the rotator works - I was using RSGB R1 FD rules this
> weekend. It seems unlikely, but I will try it with a different template.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John,
> G4DRS
>
>
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