Easy, Don, but there are lots of choices. First you need a rotor control box with a digital interface. Many have them, usually with a conventional serial port connection. If yours does not, consider the Green Heron universal controller. It can control most rotors out there.
Second, you need software to interface to the controller. Some logging programs can be set up to control some digital rotor controllers and that may be the simplest way to go. You will probably need a remote serial port. If you don't want to rely on logging programs or if your logger doesn't support your rotor/controller, you will need stand-alone software. Some controllers provide their own stand-alone software and there are also third-party programs available (see below). There are two ways these programs can run - local-only or client-server. If you choose software that runs local-only, you can run it on a computer at the radio site and access it via a remote desktop program from the control site OR you can run it at the control site with a remote serial port to the controller at the radio site. If you choose software that runs client-server, you run the server version on a computer at the radio site and the client version on a computer at the control site. Often it's the same executable at both sites and you just select different options. This is what I do, using PstRotatorAz from YO3DMU. It can run either locally or client-server and interfaces most rotor controllers and logging programs. Setup is less than obvious but help is available online and once it's working it's very robust, surviving many sorts of configuration changes and starts and stops, an excellent program. Extra added attractions include presets, turn-to-prefix, logging program interfaces, and a module that controls a SteppIR antenna controller, also remotely. GL & 73, /Rick N6XI On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Don Strom <[email protected]> wrote: > Am getting ready to order K3S with the remote rig duo from Elecraft. > > Any one out there that is rotating their antennas remotely? > > If so, very interested in what you are using to do the job. > > Thanks! Don W0EAR > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Rick Tavan Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
