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

[Jim Walls]

A little follow up report.

Several people responded either direct to me or via the AMSAT-BB. Thank 
you to each of you.  Between all the various responses I was eventually 
able to both Nova for Windows and SatPC32 to be able to read the antenna 
positions and control the rotors.  I have a very strong preference of 
using Nova over SatPC32 so very happy I was able to get that working.  I 
have enjoyed watching the antennas follow several passes of various 
satellites over the past day or so.  Now I need to get new feedlines to 
the antennas, and fix the radio.  One step at a time, but I'm getting there.

Jim
K6CCC


On 07/08/2020 19:20, Jim Walls via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> 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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