Portsdown 4 ISS Tracker

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The Portsdown 4 ISS Tracker is designed to control an az/el rotator to track the ISS during a HamTV transmission. Initial testing has been on a G5500 rotator using the g5500pi controller software connected to the rotator; however, other rotator controllers supported by HamLib rotctl may be compatible.

Supported HamLib Rotator Controllers

Portsdown 4 uses an early version of HamLib that suprts the following controllers:

Rot #  Mfg                    Model                   Version         Status
    1  Hamlib                 Dummy                   0.2             Beta
    2  Hamlib                 NET rotctl              0.3             Beta
  201  Hamlib                 EasycommI               0.4             Beta
  202  Hamlib                 EasycommII              0.4             Beta
  204  Hamlib                 EasycommIII             0.4             Alpha
  301  XQ2FOD                 Fodtrack                0.2             Stable
  401  Idiom Press            Rotor-EZ                2010-02-14      Beta
  402  Idiom Press            RotorCard               2010-02-14      Untested
  403  Hy-Gain                DCU-1/DCU-1X            2010-08-23      Untested
  404  DF9GR                  ERC                     2010-08-23b     Alpha
  405  Green Heron            RT-21                   2014-09-14      Alpha
  501  SARtek                 SARtek-1                0.2             Untested
  601  Yaesu                  GS-232A                 0.3             Beta
  602  Yaesu/Kenpro           GS-232                  0.1             Beta
  603  Yaesu                  GS-232B                 0.2             Beta
  604  F1TE                   GS232/F1TE Tracker      0.1             Beta
  701  WA6UFQ                 PcRotor                 0.1             Untested
  801  Heathkit               HD 1780 Intellirotor    0.1             Beta
  901  SPID                   Rot2Prog                1.0             Stable
  902  SPID                   Rot1Prog                1.0             Stable
  903  SPID                   MD-01/02 (ROT2 mode)    1.0             Stable
 1001  M2                     RC2800                  0.1.1           Beta
 1101  EA4TX                  ARS RCI AZ&EL           0.1             Beta
 1102  EA4TX                  ARS RCI AZ              0.1             Beta
 1201  AMSAT                  IF-100                  0.1             Untested
 1301  LA7LKA                 ts7400                  0.1             Beta
 1401  Celestron              NexStar                 0.1             Untested
 1501  DG9OAA                 Ether6 (via ethernet)   0.1             Beta
 1601  CNCTRK                 CNCTRK                  0.1             Untested
 1701  Prosistel              Prosistel D             0.3             Beta
 1801  Meade                  LX200                   0.1             Alpha