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I haven"t built the homebrew controller yet as I only had the Spid installed last week. ;-)  I wasn"t particularly impressed with the Rot2Prog controller for a number of reasons with its inability to talk with PstRotator just the last issue I came across.

You don"t have the "Point in to the Wind" function active do you?  I forgot a number of times to turn that function off when using the AZ only version of PstRotator and would wonder why halfway through a contact I"d suddenly lose the remote station only to see the beam turning into the wind.

On a side note I was so disgusted with the controller I started looking on the internet for a replacement unit and came across this homebrew controller unit by SP5GNI https://hf5l.pl/en/gni-r3-antenna-rotor-controller/ which I plan to build to see if it"s an improvement on the original controller.   I plan to build mine around a Arduino Mega 2560 with a 3.5" TFT display the extra available flash memory should allow enough space to off load the Point in the wind function the controller so a PC doesn"t need to be run all the time.

If PSTRotator is not running the controller can be in auto (A) mode for weeks and it never moves.  If I am watching the controller when it malfunctions I have seen the numeric display flash 208 then display the current heading.   When this happens in PSTRotator the black position indicator remains pointing to the last position while the green indicator moves until it reaches 208. At this point i can make requests through PSTRotator but the Spid controller does not respond. SPID. It is not RF related. I am using a linear power supply and have mix31 ferrites on all leads.

One other question though when I press stop in PstRotator the controller fails to stop is this normal?  I have both controller and tracker refresh at 0.5 seconds.

I"ve tried reinstalling the software, physically set the com port setting via windows control panel, reinstalled the FTDI drivers all to no avail as PstRotator still fail to read anything from the controller.

I"ve tried reinstalling the software, physically set the com port setting via windows control panel, reinstalled the FTDI drivers all to no avail as PstRotator still fail to read anything from the controller.

I"ve tried reinstalling the software, physically set the com port setting via windows control panel, reinstalled the FTDI drivers all to no avail as PstRotator still fail to read anything from the controller.

Basically, the software supports the controller of 4 antenna rotors. Regardless of if you are using azimuth or elevation rotors. It is even capable to show and control 2 rotors simultaneously. This makes SAT-tracking easy. It can be controlled by LCD touchscreen (presently only one specific type from Raven), rotary encoder, IR-remote, joystick, LAN or USB-port. With the last one VR is al able to talk to third party software that support Prosistel D protocol. E.g. PSTRotator is an awesome software package that let you interface with logbook software like LOG4OM V2. So far VR is the most complete solution available right now.

PstRotator supports separate antenna rotator controllers for Azimuth and Elevation control.It can controltwo separate rotor interfaces: one for azimuth and the second for elevation, or it can control a single azimuth + elevation rotor interface.

The program checks all the time the link status, and if it happens from any external reason to disconnect, the software will try to reconnect the client to server. The link status is displayed to both client and server.MAPS

PstRotator and PstRotatorAz are Shareware - you can try them for free, once you register them, you will receive a code to disable the reminder messages that will otherwise appear at start. In order to let you try the software, the programs are full functional for 10 minutes, and then stop, and the QTH locator is changed to KN34BJ.

Please download and try PstRotator or PstRotatorAz before you purchase a registration for them, as I want you to be sure you like PstRotator or PstRotatorAz before you pay for them!

You have to install thePstRotatorAzprogram in both remote and base station locations, or you can use a Serial Server (Ethernet to serial adapter) like the one manufactured byLantronix,Moxa(or others) in the remote site.

PstRotatorcan work not only as an interface for all the very known satellites tracker programs, but it can work also as a standalone satellites tracker.

Enter yourCallsign / User Name, and click theBuy Nowbutton to pay25 EURvia PayPal the license fee. The same license works for bothPstRotatorandPstRotatorAzprograms!

Enter yourCallsign / User Name, and click theBuy Nowbutton to pay25 EURvia PayPal the license fee. The same license works for bothPstRotatorandPstRotatorAzprograms!

The assembly of the case and the hardware was straightforward. The folks at Adafruit provide a pre-built Jesse Linux image for the RPi, including the necessary driver for the Touch Screen Display.

After some configuration work and creating a few shell scripts to make it easy to boot the RPi to an HDMI display or to the Touch Display, we were ready to install the GH Tracker App. We also enabled the VNC Server on the RPi to use a VNC Client application on our MacBook Air instead of directly connecting a display, keyboard, and mouse to the RPi. Finally, we installed Sambaon our RPi to allow files to be moved between our other computers and the RPi.

Jeff at Green Heron Engineering provided a copy of GHTracker V1.24 and the necessary serial interface library to enable its use on the RPi. Jeff is planning to make a tar file available with GH Tracker and the library in the near future. We did some configuration work on LXDE (the GUI interface for Linux that runs on the RPi), and it automatically runs GH Tracker whenever the RPi is booted up. We also optimized the GUI for the sole purpose of running GH Tracker on the Touch Screen Display. Finally, we configured the Ethernet and WiFi interfaces on the RPi to work with our home network and LTE Hotspot modem.

The VNC Client/Server combination allows us to work with the software on the RPi right from our MacBook Air laptop. It also makes for a nice display for monitoring the GHTracker App’s operation from the Mac.

- An home made VNA made with Arduino Nano. This project features an LCD display 4x20 works from 1 MHz to 60MHz, can use bluetooth connection with Blue VNA android app.