[TRLog] rotator control

[George Fremin III - K5TR]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:49:55AM -0400, Ron D. Rossi wrote:

> 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.
>  
> -- 

What Hy-Gain did or was going to do in their firmware
was let you set the rotors as A, B, C, D or some 
such and then you could address the rotors that
were on the smame serial port by procedding the 
command with the address. 

I think the boxes would all go to the smae heading 
if there was not an address - but I am not sure.



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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.
> > 
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