Fw: [All Directors and Officers] telescope control standardiatiion (Sent by Peter Wright , erachq@aol.com)

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Dr. Rich Russel

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Mar 23, 2026, 2:03:17 PM (10 days ago) Mar 23
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Anyone want to help Paul?

Rich

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Subject: [All Directors and Officers] telescope control standardiatiion (Sent by Peter Wright , era...@aol.com)

Peter Wright  (era...@aol.com) sent a message using the contact form at 

Hi Everyone its Peter from ERAC Greetings !! I am in the proccess of writing 
a book about radio Astronomy technic as a result of having about every book 
ever published I realized that its all prity poor, Bob Sickles did a better 
job of it back then with his publications  but that was with the 
possibilities Bob had back then. I no longer live in Germany I live in 
Bangkok and work in China doing leading edge electronic projects for Industry 
and research  so part of my book has emerged as Telescope control the dream 
of writing only a few pages ha ha i was so stupid, in reality using modern 
extremely cheap Chinease drive electronics and motors with extremely cheap 
well designed System Gearboxes I have redesigned an affordable dual axis 
system.

The reason why I am contacting you is this, I want to hear your  requests on 
which standard we should use for the next generation Telescope control, as 
this will serve as the standard to remove the chaos to get something going 
that,s not many many roads to Rome but only for the ones who master software 
programming I am developing for my book a universal interface with some other 
solutions printed also. We have the opticians using thank goodness the ASCOM 
Standard And the ham radio People  using many many many island solutions with 
PST Rotor being for a bunch of them a standard platform. they use SPID 
Protocol. with Jim and Radio Eyes he is not replying to my emails so you are 
the next level of contact, is he ok ? if yes kind regards from me please. his 
solution is do what you want so here we are having to do that maybe with his 
TCPIP solution for remoting from the start infact this is looking in general 
the best idea but the telegram protocol not being standard is a bummer by 
everyone. So I am respectfully contacting you guys to get your requests into 
the conversation.

My book with 200 A4  pages so far their is still room for a hello SARA Exists 
page in ODF Format ans maybe a guest Article  You guys interested ?
German Publisher end of the year  first edition 15,000 copies intended at 
the Christmass present market.

Kind Regards Peter Wright Bangkok / Xingang

David Kunsman

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Mar 23, 2026, 2:32:56 PM (10 days ago) Mar 23
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I could try

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Steve Berl

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Mar 23, 2026, 7:04:08 PM (10 days ago) Mar 23
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How about MQTT as a control protocol? -steve



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Don Latham

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Mar 23, 2026, 7:42:15 PM (10 days ago) Mar 23
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I've been looking at MQTT. It is a message passing protocol between servers/clients, not a control program.
 
 
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