[amsat-bb] Rotor control with SatPC32ISS

[Daniel Cussen]

I used satpc32iss and it worked very similarly to the non ISS version. From
what I remember it uses all the settings from the non iss version. As far
as I remember the main difference is that it allows the two radios or one
radio to be on the same band for transmit and receive, so it may be that
the radio is set up for the same serial port as the rotator. The ISS
version has some quirks particularly if you are only using one radio, as
many radios work a bit weird when sending remote frequencies for same band
split. Basically you are sending two frequencies to the one radio, but ICOM
and some other radios do not really fully support it and sometimes the tx
frequency ends up being written to the RX. Either way if using it for an
ISS school contact test the hell out of the radio and rotator set up all
combined. In the end I disconnected the radio Doppler correction (it is not
really needed on vhf) and had satpc32 for rotator control only.

I had to disconnect the radio Doppler while talking to an astronaut live in
front of a school hall full of kids. I worked fine during the tests!
On 10 Jun 2018 19:16, "Stephan Greene" <ks1g04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Long-time SatPC32 user but new to SatPC32ISS.  Rig control works fine, but
> I can't get rotor control working in SatPC32ISS.  Guessing that SatPC32ISS
> is not launching the rotor control server SatPC32 uses.  Suggestions?  Does
> SatPC32ISS default to the same config file as SatPC32, or does it default
> to Confguration 1? (I'm using Config II with SatPC32). Have not found
> anything (yet) in the SatPC32 docs.
>
> Thanks, 73 Steve KS1G
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