I need some advice. I have been trying to run Sat32PC to track
satellites with my G5500 rotor and LVB Tracker. It seems I am running
into one problem after another. Many times the program stops working
when I get towards a lower elevation while tracking the satellite. I
get most of the pass and then everything stops. I cannot park the rotor
and must reboot the computer as restarting the program gives com
errors. This afternoon Sat32PC was tracking a ghost. It clearly
thought something was flying above. The only satellite I had selected
was FO-29 and it definitely was well past a fly over. In fact, I could
not find an amateur satellite that was anywhere that the program should
be tracking. I would really like to get the bugs out as I plan to use
my Panasonic Toughbook in a portable operation. I am using the XP
Professional operating system with the USB communicating with the LVB
Tracker. I also have a Macbook and MacDoppler has operated flawlessly.
It does what it is suppose to do and does it well. Please no flame wars
over Mac vs PC. I use both and basically am happy with both. On
Sat32PC, the Keps are updated so I am not feeding the controller wrong
info. On the screen, the satellite position is visibly correct. On the
bottom of the screen the Azimuth / Elevation were wrong when it was
tracking the ghost. I have two Toughbooks and both exhibit the same
problem. Has anyone had the same or similar problems?
73,
-james
W5AOO