<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks, Bob.</div><div>I tried pst and it worked stand-alone. I haven't got it linked to WT properly yet.</div><div>Shame I can't get WT to work directly, though. I have it connected to a 'real' serial port.</div><div>The fact L32 and PST both work fine seems to imply the tracker is compliant.</div><div>I'll keep trying. You never know, I might crack it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>73,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv@arrl.net><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> support@win-test.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 7 June, 2010 19:03:19<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WT-support] Rotator Control<br></font><br>Rotator support in Win-Test is fully documented here.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Rotators">http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Rotators</a><br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Finally, make sure to try the latest version of wtRotators, version 1.4.0-dev, which you can download here:<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://download.win-test.com/wtRotators/nightly/">http://download.win-test.com/wtRotators/nightly/</a><br>
<br>If none of the above apply, replace wtRotators with <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm">PstRotatorsAz by YO3DMU</a>; it is reported to work much better with various hardware than wtRotators, and it is 100% compatible with Win-Test if properly configured.<br>
<br>73,<br>Bob, N6TV<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, John Wayman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:g4drs@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:g4drs@btinternet.com">g4drs@btinternet.com</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;">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;"><div>Hello,</div><div>I have just built a LVB Tracker rotator control box. It emulates a Yaesu controller and uses the GS232 command set.</div>
<div>It works fine with Logger32, but I can't get it to work with WT.</div><div>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.</div>
<div>If I close WT and run L32, it works just fine.</div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>73,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John,</div><div>G4DRS</div><div><br></div><div></div>
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