[amsat-bb] Help with Spid rotor setup on Satpc32

[Richard Gussow]

 Hi Erich,
First of all, thank you for developing such a great program.  Secondly, thank you for personally responding to my query.  Sorry my reply is a bit delayed, but work took priority (I guess I have the wrong priorities).
I chose AlphaSpid and stored that, exited the program through File/Quit. I restarted and that didn't work.   I then used the Search button located in the Rotor Setup menu.  It came up with 2 files under the Spid directory:  ROTSERVPOS.SQF and SPIDPARAM.SQF.  I selected the first one, stored, exited and upon restart, I received the message that it could not find file ROTSERVPOS.EXE.  I then selected the second one, and upon restart I received a message that it could not find SPIDPARAM.EXE.  I did a search of my PC  and could not find either of these files anywhere.  Should they have been installed during the setup?  Should I do a reinstall of the program?
Any suggestions from you or anyone else on the great forum would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich 4Z1JJ


    On Monday, August 5, 2019, 10:54:50 PM GMT+3, Erich Eichmann <erich.eichmann at t-online.de> wrote:  
 
 Hi Rich,
The LPT ports are only used with the old  parallel port interfaces 
(IF-100, FODTrack etc.). Open the list of supported rotor controllers at 
the top of menu 'Rotor Setup' and choose item 'AlfaSpid'.

73s, Erich, DK1TB

Am 05.08.2019 um 21:00 schrieb Richard Gussow via AMSAT-BB:
> Hi everyone,
> I was wondering if someone can help me with an issue I am having with setting up Satpc32 and my Spid Ras rotor.  SatPC32 asks for a parallel port of 1-4 in the set up menu, while the Spid Ras controller set up a serial port (com port 8 in my case).  How do I reconcile the two?
> Thanks,
> Rich4Z1JJ
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