[amsat-bb] FoxDelta ST2-0417 USB setup help

[Jim Walls]

I recently bought a FoxDelta ST2-0417 USB rotor interface for my Yaesu 
G-5500 rotor.  I have the ST-2 communicating with the rotor just fine.  
I can see the azimuth and elevation readout and using the ST2 
pushbuttons, I can control both just fine.   However, I can't get it to 
communicate properly with my computer.  I am running a Dell desktop 
under Windows 10 and have installed the CH360G driver.  The ST2 shows as 
COM8 according the the device manager.  If I unplug the USB cable, the 
Device Manager confirms that COM8 goes away and when I plug the cable 
back in, COM8 returns.  I initially was trying to use Nova for Windows 
(which I have used for 20+ years).  I tried every software interface 
setting (using COM8) and the best I could get a couple weeks ago was 
Azimuth display and control (no elevation display, but it appeared that 
it tried to control elevation), but can't manage to replicate that 
today. Everything shows either 0.0 / 0.0 or ---- / ---- for the rotor 
pointing in Nova.
Somewhat out of desperation, I downloaded SatPC32 and can't even get 
that far.  As far as I can tell, every rotor type is expecting a 
parallel port interface.  Keep in mind that I have never seen SatPC32 
until an hour ago, so that may be my issue.

My preference would be to use Nova for Windows, but if that can't be 
made to work, I CAN switch over to SatPC32.  In either case, the 
software will be used exclusively for rotor control and not doppler 
correction (not using a radio that supports that).


Do you have any suggestions?

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