Wayne
Sartek rotor control is a ISA board that goes into your computer.
In my case, a TailTwister, another small relay board goes into the rotor
control box.
The two are connected via a serial cable and take a serial port with it's
necessary irq and address.
>From many programs you can automatically aim your beam via this interface.
Sartek supplies a small windows program which also can provide rotor control
with a mouse.
I don't believe that Writelog presently implements Sartek code and obviously
is not available.
Many of the high end logging programs do utilize the Sartek interface.
I use DXBase which does. When a dx spot comes in or I click on a callsign,
the DXBase calculate the proper heading. I can if I choose to, click on a
button and my antenna will turn to that direction.
I can also choose long path direction is I wish.
I assume you have the URL which is:
http://www.hosenose.com/sartek/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne F. King" <wfking@worldnet.att.net>
To: "WL Reflector" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Sartek Rotor control
>
> Can someone explain to me what Sartek rotor control is Please?
> Is anyone running a Big Boy Rotor with Writelog? I have a Big Boy and it
> is compatible with Sartek1. Here is the pin out for it
> 1-5=not used
> 6= ground
> 7= antenna direction output voltage
> 8= cw
> 9= ccw
>
> I wonder if my rotor will work with WL? Thanks in advance.
>
> 73, Wayne N2WK
>
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