At 09:08 AM 4/3/2023 +1200, wandtosborne@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Vince,

Just tried to run 2 instances of SatPC32. On the second instance, rotor and cat control are deactivated. See attached screen shot. You probably have found this already. Try GPredict instead of SatPC32. I can run 2 instances of that without any problems but I haven't tried rotor and cat control.

73, Terry ZL2BAC

Hi Terry, & all,

I'm surprised my question hasn't popped up before. I have two radio's with their own com ports. Radio one is configured in configuration one, radio two is configured in configuration two. And I'm not using Satpc32 for rotator control

I start Satpc32 in configuration one. Start up a second instance of Satpc32 and switch that instance to configuration two. Radio 2

Separate radios, com ports, and program instances, no shared hardware, yet only one radio gets controlled. I don't know if Satpc32 has a command line switch to tell it what configuration to start in so it won't think there is a conflict if there's another different config instance running.

I just thought of something else I'm going to try. After I start the two instances with different configurations, I'm going to switch sat mode off on each under the file menu's, and then switch them both back on again with "C" cat command and see if Satpc32 still thinks there's a conflict. We all know there is no com port radio conflict, but the program still might.

73 KB7ADL