[amsat-bb] SatPC32 madness

[Kevin]

Ed,
    I have seen some of those issues, if the antennas are not moving 
look in task manager and see ServerSDX says "not responding" if yes then 
check with Eric for a older version of serverSDX, I am running it and 
the not responding went away.
   As for the satellite switch I have caught that several times, I get 
the announcement that the satellite is rising but it does not switch and 
set the frequency, or it will switch and rotors work  but frequency 
isn't updated, selecting another sat in the list wakes it up and then it 
properly switches and everything works.
  I have changed the order around on the sat list to see it if was a 
particular sat or location with no change, I have seen it on my IC-9100 
and IC-9700 and on windows 8.1 and 10 but it just does not do it often 
enough to figure out what is triggering the problem.
   Thinking I had messed something up somewhere I wiped the hard disk 
when I went to windows 10 recently to do a clean install of everything 
and reinstalled from scratch setting up everything new, and I have 
caught it twice now not changing the frequency, what radio you running? 
maybe it's a Icom issue, I do not know...

73 Kevin WA7FWF


On 8/28/2019 18:27, Ed Krome via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> I’m using registered satpc32 v.12.8c (also have 12.8d on another; same problem ) to control HDSDR and LVB tracker (serial, not usb, which is even more problematic), automatic satellite switching (now looking at wxsat’s). Sometimes, it all works fine. Other times, not. Like tonight, it won’t auto switch. Other times, When it does auto switch, it controls frequency just fine. But it may or may not move the antennas. Tonight it’s not auto switching, but when I manually click on the visible satellite, freq and rotor control start to work. Sometimes it will all work well for a few days. Then just quit. (It’s all on a good UPS). I sometimes think it just likes to mess with me. The other machine does the same thing. When it feels like it.
> Anybody have any words of wisdom ?
>
> Ed K9EK
>
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