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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CSUIUWPY5FBWSJSUTVTDUHZKWWJ6LNDQ/?format=api",
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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Smartphone app antenna pointing???",
    "date": "2012-12-29T04:21:54Z",
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    "content": "I am not aware of such an app for the Android platform, at least not for \nartificial communications satellites.\n\nGoogle Sky Map will do that for the Moon, but \"Oscar Zero\" moves through \nthe sky much more slowly than the Ham sats (as you well know). And even \nthough having the phone point you to a slow moving satellite like the Moon \nis much easier computationally yhan tracking a fast-moving LEO, I have been \na little dissappointed with the pointing accuracy of Google Sky Map using \nmy Samsung Galaxy S2. When the phone figures out which way it is being \npointed, it gives a beautifully accurate map of celestial objects in its \nline of view, but sometimes it seems like the phone's internal compass \nfunction is out of calibration.\n\nBottom line -- it should be doable and has, in principle, been done with \nthe Moon as the satellite of interest, but has not, AFIK, been done for Ham \nsats.\n\nI agree it could be a handy Android app if it worked well.\n\n73 de W0JT/5\nJohn P. Toscano\nEL09ro October-May\nEN34js June-September\n\nOn Dec 28 2012, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote:\n\n>It seems to me that some smartphones have sensors for elevation and \n>azimuth, and the capacity to calculate those for satellite passes.\n>Has anyone combined all that so that one could just attach the 'phone to \n>the antenna boom and have it indicate where to point it?\n>\n>This would be particularly useful for the analog sats, since very little \n>attention would need to be paid to antenna pointing.\n>\n>73, doug\n>_______________________________________________\n>Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n>Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n",
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