[TRLog] rotator control

[Ron D. Rossi]

ROTATOR TYPE = YAESU will be supported in the next release for those which 
actually spent the extra $ on the yaesu version of the controller.

The ROTATOR PORT command was added in 6.41. The ORION PORT was kept for 
backward compatibility. They both set the same internal variable, so the last 
one specified in the CFG file wins!

Rich, How come you did not request a radio two rotator port command? There is 
a way to do that today. Since TR does not interrogate the rotator you could 
use a switching arrangement steered by the RELAY CONTROL PORT bit and send the 
rotator commands to the right place.
 
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>>>George Fremin III - K5TR said:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:04:08PM -0800, KL7RA wrote:
> > 
> > Turning three antennas in a 4/4/4 stack to the same direction 
> > with the Ctrl P command would be useful. It would suck up
> > serial ports with Rotor one = serial one style assignments
> > but maybe a Rotor # control bit or using a LPT port. The 
> > Rotor-EZ kit uses a socket IC for upgrades. Maybe a 
> > serial port rotator address could be added to the command?
> > All this may be academic as the serial port may work going 
> > to two controllers in parallel, I will check that out.
> > 
> 
> 
> The DCU-1 should do something like this - they have 
> in and out serial ports on the boxes so you can 
> chin them together.  When I was beta tesing 
> them I suggested that Hy-Gain should add addressing
> to the command set - I am pretty sure they did.
> 
> So I would suggeest that the Rotor-EZ guys use the
> same command formats as the DCU-1 for this feature.
> 
> -- 
> George Fremin III - K5TR
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> 
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