[Dxbase] Interesting Finding with Orion Rotor

[Jack]

As some of you might know, I'm in the process of finally getting my station 
back into full working order.  I replaced a burned out Tx2 with an Orion 
2800.  But, the rs232 interface with DXbase just would not work.  I could 
talk to the rotor and see its commands being sent etc... but it just would 
not turn.  Same symptoms when I tried using hyperterm.  I placed a call to 
M2 and learned that in their more recent rotor control boxes, they changed 
the RS232 interface so that instead of just sending the three digit degrees 
that you want set, you now must prefix the degrees with the letter "A".

I opened DXbase user options, added the A in front of the command and now 
everything works fine.  Haven't seen this issue mentioned on the reflector 
so thought I would pass it along in case someone else gets hit with the same 
problem.

Cheers,
Jack