<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:52 PM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:W2RU@frontiernet.net">W2RU@frontiernet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have installed a Green Heron RT-20 (serial port, not USB) rotor control into my Win-Test set-up on COM4 (regular PCI card) of my PC with Win7 Pro 64-bit OS.<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
1. How do wtRotator.exe and the rotor controller determine the signalling speed in use on the COM port? I don't find any way to force a specific speed when the rotor controller is capable of multiple speeds. (I normally set the Green Heron to 4800-8-N-1, the original DCU-1 spec.)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I think it must be hard coded based on rotator type selected, so if the Green Heron RT-20 interface is compatible with the DCU-1 then 4800-N-8-1 would be appropriate.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2. The little display window that shows the rotor heading and allows manual control of the rotor SERIOUSLY lags the actual real-time beam heading as it appears on the front panel display of the Green Heron. When rotating a TailTwister from Europe to Japan the short way, the Win-Test heading display can be as much as 40 or 50 seconds and/or degrees behind!<br>
</blockquote><br></div>Not good. Try PstRotatorsAz by YO3DMU instead of wtRotators. It is much more functional, mostly, and it is completely compatible with Win-Test's network protocols.<br><br><a href="http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm">http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm</a><br>
<br>73,<br>Bob, N6TV<br>