[WT-support] Rotator Control

[John Wayman]

Thanks, Bob.
I tried pst and it worked stand-alone. I haven't got it linked to WT properly yet.
Shame I can't get WT to work directly, though. I have it connected to a 'real' serial port.
The fact L32 and PST both work fine seems to imply the tracker is compliant.
I'll keep trying. You never know, I might crack it.


73,


John



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From: "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv at arrl.net>
To: support at win-test.com
Sent: Monday, 7 June, 2010 19:03:19
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Rotator Control

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; 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:

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>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.
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>73,
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>John,
>G4DRS
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