Hello Clayton,

I am using Orbitron to track sat's via dde and that has worked very well and no trouble except hardware (relays) as Jeff probably having. But I also using pstrotator on the eme setup,,very good pice of sw. The MD-01 controller is much more reliable I think so people that order a spid rotor should include that instead of rot2prg.

Harald la7qta

Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 5:55:56 PM, you wrote:

I eliminated all my issues with the AlfaSpid RAS/HR & MD-01 controller by migrating from using SatPC32 to PSTrotator software for rotor control. SatPC32 did not have the correct incremental steps and more importantly it does not read any feedback from the controller when it is sending commands. You will definitely have problems, potentially hazardous mechanical aiming issues, if you attempt to use the AlfaSpid+SatPC32 for anything other than 360 degree rotation. My recommendation is use PSTrotator natively to control/direct Spid movements (and NOT feed with DDE instructions from other applications.)

73 Clayton W5PFG

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