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

[Joe Werth]

Roger,
You might look at PSTRotator software.  It supports ERC and the COM ports...and is inexpensive software.  

Joe. KE9AJ

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> On Jun 2, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Roger Heindl <rwheindl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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