Rotor Operational Questions (vk4ma)

[vk4ma]

Hello All

I have recently started using Rotor after moving my shack to MacOS - a few things are not clear to me

1 I have two rotators (both AlfaspidRAK), when using the Rotor App, my 6 metres antenna rotates through 0 degrees - ie if I am at 5 degrees and want to rotate to 355 degrees - the rotor will move anti clockwise and move just 10 degrees. With my HF antenna, the rotator wants to rotate through 180 degrees so it will move clockwise and rotate a full 340 degrees to get to 355 degrees. I can not see a setting in Rotor that controls this (nor in the manual for the Alfapid). Both rotators were swinging through 0 degrees when using PST Rotator. Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

2 In the turn box - it says you can post numerical direction, grid or call. If I put in say 320 the rotor will rotate to 320 degrees. But if I put in a full callsign or a dxcc prefix the rotator does not move. How do I get the "call" functionality to work so I can put in a callsign and the rotator turns toward that callsign location? I am using Rotor stand alone - ie not connected to Rumlog - is this the problem?

Any help is appreciated

Cheers and Thanks
Paul - vk4ma

[DL2RUM]

The app commands the controller to move to the specified heading. It's the decision of the controller in which direction the antenna has to turn.

The app includes a database with ca. 60.000 callsigns with grid squares. These are mainly active in VHF contests.
Here is room for more improvements.