Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

2014-06-23 Thread Gary Mayfield
FODTrack was/is a parallel port controller. 73, Joe kks0d -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jim Jerzycke Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 7:40 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller

Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

2014-06-23 Thread Pavel Milanes Costa
El 22/06/14 23:39, Greg D escribió: Final runstring: rotctld -r /dev/ttyS3 -s 9600 -m 603 -C stop_bits=2 -C timeout=1 Thanks again, Greg KO6TH Yaesu GS232Bfor the record on the maillist ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions

[amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

2014-06-22 Thread Greg D
Hi folks, So all this talk about Gpredict got me to look at updating my own setup, which pre-dated the modern Gpredict capabilites. But being so archaic, I need some help connecting the dots... I have Gpredict / Hamlib talking to my Yaesu FT-736R radio for Doppler tracking just fine, but

Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

2014-06-22 Thread Jim Jerzycke
I would suspect it's using the Yaesu GS-232 protocol. Jim KQ6EA On 06/22/2014 06:08 PM, Greg D wrote: Hi folks, So all this talk about Gpredict got me to look at updating my own setup, which pre-dated the modern Gpredict capabilites. But being so archaic, I need some help connecting the

Re: [amsat-bb] Fodtrack Serial rotor controller on HamLib

2014-06-22 Thread Greg D
Ok, some progress. I went back to my modifications to predict to see what exactly I had done, and one of the mods was to set the serial port stop bits to 2. I recall now that the Basic Stamp that drives my controller logic isn't fast enough to parse the serial stream with only one. Setting