[WT-support] Rotator program issue continued

[Stephen J. Schrack]

Thank you very much for your help Bob. Your expertise with Win-test and your
willingness to help is very much appreciated.  I will do this when I get
home tonight from work.

73 Steve N3MX

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> I tried PstRotators 4.22 and 3.97.  Neither one appears to be compatible
> with Win-Test on Windows 7.  I tried it on Win7 32-bit and WT gives "Error
> 10038 opening socket" every time, as you discovered, and as originally
> reported.
>
> wtRotators 1.4, which gets installed with WT 4.6, appears to be completely
> broken.  You get the "-01" message in the wtRotators window.  It doesn't
> give the 10038 error, as you noted.
>
> wtRotators 1.3 appears to work fine with WT 4.4, 4.5.1, and 4.6.0.
>
> wtRotators 1.4 does not appear to work with any version.
>
> Solution:
>
>  Re-install wt4.5.1 or wt4.4.0 to get wtRotators 1.3 back.  Save it.
>
> Note that network protocol changed in both WT 4.5.1 and WT 4.6.
>
> Then re-install wt 4.6 but restore or run the backup copy of wtRotators and
> make sure you are running wtRotators version 1.3.  Then launch WT 4.6 and it
> should work OK.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Stephen J. Schrack <n3mx at ptd.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Bob,
>>
>> I tried going back to 4.5.1 and it behaves the same way wtrotators does
>> not work. I was getting the error set rotator to -01 but the program does
>> not allow that parameter to be set.  I know for a fact that wtrotators was
>> working just prior to 4.51.  I did not mess with the setting between
>> upgrades. I read your post about pstrotators and windows 7 and that seems to
>> be dead on. I am not running multiple instances of wtrotators or
>> pstrotators. Win-test only produces error message with pstrotators not
>> wtrotators. Both programs will control rotator manually but not from
>> win-test when pressing F12. I am not running local loop back and never have.
>> All programs match up and I have pressed default button so everything is
>> using 192.168.1.255 and port 9871. I tried adding the entry and that did not
>> help even after a reboot. Full permissions have been given to all programs
>> and I am running all programs as administrator (modified shortcut) etc.  Any
>> other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks Steve N3MX
>>
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