[Elecraft] Rotor control

[bwruble at gmail.com]

At the moment, I am using logmein.com, a free program for remotely controlling a pc I left running at the remote location (with a backup battery.)  I log on and use Green Heron software to control a Green Heron rotor box.  It is slow and clumsy.

Option 1, which inexplicably failed, was an ethernet-to-serial converter. There are many varieties, they are very ideosyncratic.  When it worked, it was great. You set up a virtual serial port at your control location, and that becomes the rotor port used in your software. The virtual serial port software is normally provided by the converter manufacturer, and the converters don't seem to like other virtual port software.  USConverters.com is one place to start.

As I say, mine worked great until it didn't, and I don't know why it failed, but I had a backup. I got a neighbor to go in and change the cable from the rotor box to the one to my PC.

N3JT has had success with a converter, and he has written an article for the (I think) January CQ on the subject.

Let me know what you learn in the process.

73 de Brian, W3BW/remote Key West to Maryland


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1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040 
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> On Dec 24, 2013, at 4:20 PM, David Christ <radioham at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 
> When using Remote Rig for running a remote K3, what are people using for rotor control?
> 
> David K0LUM
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