[PPRAANet] Does anyone have a Yaesu G-5500 controller they're willing to lend?

[Roger Oakey]

Thrive academy in Colorado Springs has an upcoming International Space Station contact. The equipment supplied to us through ARISS (ariss.org) has a G-5500 controller whose DIN connector interface appears to be non-functional. If possible we'd like to borrow one for the contact - we have the GS-232 computer interface already.

The alternative is run the D-5500DC AltAz rotors manually - which we can do - but it's a lot easier (and a lot less stress) if the computer does it for us.

Please note: We need a G-5500, not something else or something "compatible" because all the software (which comes from ARISS pre-configured) is setup to deal with that specific controller.

This is what the controller we'd like to borrow looks like: https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/prod/xlarge/ysu-g-5500dc_dg_xl.jpg

Please drop me an email if you'd be willing to loan your controller to us for a week or so, February 17-25.

Thank you,

Roger Oakey
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