[amsat-bb] FoxDelta ST2-0417 USB setup help
kb2mjeff at att.net
kb2mjeff at att.net
Sun Jul 12 20:13:20 UTC 2020
Hi Jim , it will good to hear you back on the air....
73 Jeff kb2m
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From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Jim Walls via AMSAT-BB
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 15:32
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FoxDelta ST2-0417 USB setup help
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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73
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Jim Walls - K6CCC
jim at k6ccc.org
Ofc: 818-548-4804
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/k6ccc/
AMSAT Member 32537 - WSWSS Member 395
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