[WT-support] Try PstRotatorsAz instead of wtRotators

[w7upf]

Bob:  In his email to me he said he is open to suggestion to add to or 
make changes in the software.
Don


Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> W7UPF and others are having a lot of trouble getting wtRotators to 
> work properly with offsets.  Both wtRotators and wtRotators-dev 1.4.0 
> still have a lot of bugs that have not been fixed yet.
>
> Don discovered that there's another program named PstRotatorsAz by 
> Codrut, YO3DMU, that that you can use with Win-Test instead of wtRotators.
>
> http://www.qsl.net/yo3dmu/index_Page346.htm
>
> The interface looks very nice, complete with maps, memories, presets, 
> and click to turn.  I have not tried it myself yet.
>
> Here are YO3DMU's set-up instructions for use with Win-Test, as 
> relayed to me by W7UPF:
>
>     Step one..first run the PstRotator program and go to Setup and
>     select the rotor unit you are using or intend to use.    Next,
>     Select My Locator and enter your Grid Location and press OK.
>      Next, still under Setup, select Azimuth Offset if your antenna is
>     indeed off by some degree, if not then you are finished with
>     Setup.  Go next to  proceed to Tracker and select Win-Test.  
>     Last, under Mode select Track.
>
>     This completes your setup for PstRotator  and now activate
>     Win-Test and go to Options and under Configure Interfaces press
>     Default for Broadcast and do the same for Port number.  Finally,
>     check the Enable Ethernet Network box and press OK.  This
>     completes system setup.
>
>  
> Then all you have to do is enter a prefix or beam heading in Win-Test 
> and press Ctrl-F12 (or Alt-F12 for Long Path) and PstRotators 
> intercepts the broadcast messages and does the rest.  You do not run 
> wtRotators at all.
>
> If you have more than one rotator, I think PstRotatorAz turns all of 
> them to the same heading.  Maybe YO3DMU will eventually add more 
> features so that we can specify which bands are covered by each 
> rotator, and which stacks include 90° offset bidirectional antennas 
> such as rotary dipoles, as we can do with wtRotators.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
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