ROT ID MODEL

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wx3k
ROT ID MODEL

Greetings,

I have CQRlog running on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine very nicely now. I also have my ICOM 756 talking to it via a USB interface. All good so far with that.

Rotor Control...How do I figure out my ROT ID MODEL and if it is supported ? I assume CQRlog uses the hamlib TCP rotator control daemon.

I use a Idiom Press ROTOR-EZ interface which I build and interfaced for my HyGain Tailtwister

I typed "which rotctld" in a terminal and "/usr/bin/rotctld" is echoed so I assume its in there.

Stephanie WX3K

oh1kh
ROT ID MODEL

Hi Stephanie!

Open console and type:
rotctl -l

You see the list of supported models.

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Saku
OH1KH

oh1kh
ROT ID MODEL

Forgot to mention that also the daemon version lists rotors with same parameter:
rotctld -l

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Saku
OH1KH

wx3k
How cool is that ! It

How cool is that ! It started working as soon as I restarted CQRlog. :-) Very Nice.

Stephanie WX3K

oh1kh
How cool is that ! It

Hi Stephanie!

I have made fix to source so that rotator is now selected in same way as rig. Then the list is already available at preferences.

Should exist in future versions.

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Saku
OH1KH

wx3k
Nice to know Saku !

Nice to know Saku !

73
Stephanie WX3K

Stephanie WX3K

oh1kh
ROT ID MODEL

Hi Stephanie!

Now when you have working rotator setup could you tell if buttons long and short path work ok?

I have played with hamlib dummy rotator and with that it seems that cqrlog can not turn rotator if path is over 180 deg, and full circle is indicated from -180 to 180.

I remember I have played with this few years ago when I designed micro controller driven rotator interface that used hamlib emulation.
I think my emulation understood circle as from 0 to 360 deg because I did not remember any cqrlog display with negative degrees.

May this be just Hamlib Dummy rotator case, or does it happen with real commercial rotators too?

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Saku
OH1KH