[DogParkList] Rotor

[Don Agro]

On 2013-09-29, at 5:48 PM, Philip Graitcer <pgraitc at me.com> wrote:


> My Ham IV rotor with a Rotor EZ board works fine with maclogger, except the beams moves in exactly the reverse of the headings on maclogger. The long path and short path are reversed in the rotor panel and when I click Beam or R. If I want to head the beam, I click R.

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> In otherwords, if I have WB5KSD in the logging panel, the headings are 283/103, and I click beam, the antenna turns toward 103, the backside of the beam. If I click R it turns to 283.

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> On the rotor panel, the headings shown are the reverse of what they should be.

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> I can live with this, but is there an easy fix.

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> Below is console and screen shot.


The console log shows the short path as 49 degrees and that is what is being sent to the rotor (AP1049).

If the rotor is not setting the azimuth to 49 then perhaps the rotor setup is wrong ?



> 

> Phil, W3HZZ


73 de VE3VRW Don Agro