[amsat-bb] Easy Rotor Controller (ERC-M), SATPC32, and Yaesu G5400B Antenna Rotor

[Roger Heindl]

The Milwaukee Radio Amateur Club is sponsoring and assembling an ARISS
contact station. We've purchased an ERC-M USB from Vibroplex and installed
SATPC32 on a Windows 7 laptop.

Our initial tests with the included software for the ERC work and we can
control the rotor when we specify COM4. However when we launch SATPC32, the
Rotor options for Yaesu only list LPT ports. Could anyone provide guidance
for a way to specify USB COM4 for the ERC in the SATPC32 software?

Reading the archives, it seems like others have been successful with this
configuration. Could someone provide us with additional information on your
setup for SATPC32? Or should we possibly consider an alternate software
such as GPredict (though GPredict only had network settings for rotor
control, I didn't see any COM port fields in GPredict either). I'm a bit
confused how others set this up.

Thanks for any assistance,
Roger
AC9BT