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Hi Bob,<br>
<br>
I'm using a Equinox ESP-8 (now Avocent) Ethernet to to 8 RS232
connected to 3 rotors, 2 radios, 1 LP-100A and 1 Steppir and it's
working well... but if you want to use the RS232 DTR or RTS to Key
CW or FSK it fails....please note that this device uses UDP protocol
so sometimes lose packets and it doesn't route over internet without
a VPN...<br>
<br>
73<br>
<br>
<br>
On 10/7/2010 6:39 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTikAVpT3D84+mBM+=He4Ew85igAcsCkg47fdHVf-@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Peter,<br>
<br>
First, having a rotator control box that plugs directly into a LAN
as an Ethernet appliance sounds like a great idea; this would
greatly simplify station integration <i>if</i> there were a
standard protocol, such as the Win-Test UDP protocol, that all
manufacturers could implement.<br>
<br>
As you may have already discovered, the UDP protocol used by
Win-Test is documented here:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://download.win-test.com/utils/SummaryBroadcastingSpecs.txt">http://download.win-test.com/utils/SummaryBroadcastingSpecs.txt</a><br>
<br>
Unfortunately, that document is over 2 years old, and it describes
protocol version 1.2 (current version is 1.25). It does <i>not</i>
describe the relatively new rotator frames, which were added in
Summer of 2009, about a year after that document was published.<br>
<br>
I think the current protocol document is available to software
authors upon request. It would be nice if it were published as an
open standard that all rotator manufacturers could adopt.<br>
<br>
In the mean time, adopting an existing published RS-232 command
set would be your best bet, even if you don't have any serial
ports on your computer.<br>
<br>
You could use an Ethernet-to-RS232 device like this one to send
commands to your controller over Ethernet:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hw-group.com/products/converter/index_en.html">http://www.hw-group.com/products/converter/index_en.html</a><br>
<br>
If anyone on this list ever tried using something like this
Portbox Ethernet-to-RS232 box, please describe the results. Note
that this is ETHERNET, not USB.<br>
<br>
73,<br>
Bob, N6TV<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Peter
Stuge <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peter@stuge.se">peter@stuge.se</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left:
1ex;">Hello!<br>
<br>
I'm a member of SSRS in southern Sweden, I'm not yet equipped
with a<br>
callsign, but an amateur at heart for many years already. We
expect<br>
to see some activity this weekend :) so it would be nice if I
could<br>
get this thing to work.<br>
<br>
I've made my own controller for our Yaesu antenna rotor since
we<br>
don't have a GS-232. I would of course like to hook the
controller<br>
into Win-Test, but even though it would allow me to use
wtRotators<br>
as-is, I am not at all interested in emulating the GS-232
serial<br>
protocol.<br>
<br>
It would be significantly easier, faster and simpler for me if
I<br>
could use another protocol for the controller, and had the<br>
information needed to write a small program that looks like,
and<br>
speaks like, wtRotators. We are not using wtRotators at all at
the<br>
moment, so there's no risk for conflicts.<br>
<br>
In the longer term maybe wtRotators would gain support for my<br>
controller directly, that would be ideal, but right now my
focus is<br>
on the coming contest and I can certainly whip something up
quickly<br>
enough as long as I know what the UDP messages should look
like.<br>
<br>
Can someone help me? The wiki has a lot of great information,
but<br>
very little at the level of detail I need to do this. I hope
someone<br>
can fill the gap. It seems that PstRotator and maybe also
others<br>
speak this protocol too.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
//Peter<br>
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