Marv
I have recently received an email indicating that HRD 2121 does work with the LVB Tracker, however it was via a rather circuitous route from Poland via Canada and I have no more details.
I am not an HRD user myself, and at present my QTH is undergoing some fairly substantial rennovation so I'm living out of cardboard boxes at the moment and have no direct means to test it.
Protocols supported by the LVB Tracker are Easycomm-1 and GS-232A. GS-232A was chosen because at the time that seemed to be the most common theme among prediction programs. Easycomm-1 was also promised very early on, so I added that too: it detects which protocol is being run on the fly.
I have just tried it on my laptop, and selected HRD Rotator 4.1 build 2026 with Yaesu Az/El at 9600 bps and I could see a "C2" command being executed using an RS-232 sniffer. This is a GS-232A command to return Azimuth and Elevation to the host. So Yaesu Az/El and 9600bps would seem to be the settings to use.
I am committed to making this work, so please let me know what you have tried.
73, Howard G6LVB
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of racer5039 Sent: 03 March 2009 00:23 To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] LVB Tracker and HRD Sat Tracker setup Problem
I got my LVB Tracker box today and while going through the setup I have found a couple of things. To start off. I am using HRD 4.1 B2055, Sat Tracker 4.1 B 2019. Radio is a Kenwood 2000 Rotor is the G-5500 In the rotator set up of HRD there is no option for the GS 232B so I have no control of the ELEV. I have looked thought the other posts on HRD site but cant seem to find any talk of a fix for this. I have check the com to the rotor and can move them by hand just fine with both the GS 232 & EasyComm. Can someone point me to the right area to fix this problem please. Thanks Marv N0FJP _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb