Today while working the sats with Satpc32 the G-5500 would rotate east to west but not return with a call from PSTrotator. It seemed to get progressively worse and I would have to return the rotator to east manualy using the manual box. I checked for broken wires from the rotator to the manual box and everything wrings out fine. The rotator works fine in manual mode...push the switches for az/el and the rotator turns and returns the proper position indication on the needles. By the end of the day the GS-232 is not communicating with the G-5500 at all and will not command or return a rotator position to the computer via satPC32. My thoughts are...the serial board in the dell laptop, bad serial cable, or bad GS-232. Baud rates, com. ports and general set up for SatPC32 remain unchanged and have worked for the last 3 plus years. I can afford and new serial cable. Thoughts welcome here or contact me off page at kb3pmr@gmail.com
Thanks Bob