[WT-support] Rotator Control enhancements

[ea4tx at ea4tx.com]

Frank,

 

Also you can run the ARSVCOM program – included with the ARS-USB Product – as replacement to wtRotators since I was working with Oliver F5MZN during the Best phase of Win-Test V4. ARSVCOM can control manually the elevation something that Win-Test will not work.

 

73s Pablo EA4TX

 

 

 

De: support <support-bounces at win-test.com> En nombre de Bob Wilson, N6TV
Enviado el: lunes, 13 de marzo de 2023 0:53
Para: Win-Test support mailing list <support at win-test.com>
Asunto: Re: [WT-support] Rotator Control enhancements

 

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 2:35 PM dl2alf <dl2alf at arcor.de <mailto:dl2alf at arcor.de> > wrote:

I was playing around with Win-Test’s rotator features in order to get it working with arbitrary software for controlling our VHF-/UHF-/SHF-contest station @DK0NA.

Success so far but some questions and wishes for enhancement came up immediately :):

 

1)      Rotator control steps of 15°/45° are far too much for VHF & up. I suppose it is hardcoded. Is there any way to make this configurable?

If using Win-Test, you can type any beam heading or DX prefix or full callsign into the logging window and press Ctrl-F12 to rotate to that exact heading (short path).  Use Alt-F12 to rotate to the long path heading.

2)      To have the current azimuth and control commands via LUA scripting interface would be nice. This would allow to overcome 1), redefining keys for commands and other features. Is there any way to implement this?

No real need for this since it's built-in to Win-Test already, just press Ctrl-F12:  https://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Rotators

 

A script can type into the logging Window and Press F12 too:

 

-- Turn beam to 350 degrees short path 

if wtQso:IsCurrentFieldCallsign() then

   -- Clear the callsign field

   wtApp:SendKey("W", WT_KEY_CTRL)

   -- Enter beam heading 350

   wtApp:SendKey("350", WT_KEY_NONE)

   -- Send Ctrl-F12 to rotate to the beam heading

   wtApp:SendFKey("F12", WT_KEY_CTRL)

   -- Clear the callsign field

   wtApp:SendKey("W", WT_KEY_CTRL)

end

 

3)      Elevation control would be a nice feature too but would require more efforts I believe…

 

You should probably use PstRotator, which is a Win-Test-compatible substitute that has many more features than wtRotators.  wtRotators hasn't really been enhanced since F5MZN stopped working on Win-Test code many years ago.

 

http://www.pstrotator.com/

 

73,

Bob, N6TV 

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