[amsat-bb] Spid RAS rotor issue

[Harald]

Hello Clayton,

I am using Orbitron to track sat's via dde and that has worked
very well and no trouble except hardware (relays) as Jeff
probably having.
But I also using pstrotator on the eme setup,,very good
pice of sw.
The MD-01 controller is much more reliable I think so people
that order a spid rotor should include that instead of rot2prg.

Harald
la7qta


Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 5:55:56 PM, you wrote:

> I eliminated all my issues with the AlfaSpid RAS/HR & MD-01 controller by migrating from using SatPC32
> to PSTrotator software for rotor control. SatPC32 did not have the correct incremental steps and more
> importantly it does not read any feedback from the controller when it is sending commands.
> You will definitely have problems, potentially hazardous mechanical aiming issues, if you attempt to
> use the AlfaSpid+SatPC32 for anything other than 360 degree rotation.  My recommendation is use PSTrotator
> natively to control/direct Spid movements (and NOT feed with DDE instructions from other applications.)

> 73
> Clayton
> W5PFG

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 Harald                            mailto:haralok at gmail.com