On 7/5/15, Stephan Greene ks1g04@gmail.com wrote:
Trying out ham radio packages on a Raspberry PI 2 (which is a nice piece of kit, particularly with the new "official" case . Gpredict runs well, but... I can't find the TLEs to load NO-84/PSAT. The TLE's from celestrack do not include it (at least I have not found it searching by object number, int'l number, oscar #, name,...). I probably missed emails here why celestrack can't provide the TLEs, and on configuring GPredict to use a different source (AMSAT). Wasn't an issue for me before - I usually run SatPC32 and "it just works".
First, which version of Gpredict are you using? Second, what's your OS?
If you're using Linux, look for a hidden directory in your account with the format:
./configure/gpredict
This may vary between distributions and may have a different name, but directory won't appear on your desktop. You'll find it using:
ls -al /home/xxxxx/Desktop
where xxxxx is your account name.
That directory will have some subdirectories. The ones you'd be interested in are satdata (which contains the TLE files) and tsrp (which have the frequency data).
The TLE files are of the form NORAD-ID.sat and the frequency files are NORAD-ID.tsrp. Those are text files which can be edited and copied, but they need to have the correct NORAD ID number as their name.
Once you've copied them, you'll have to log out and log in again in order for Gpredict to find them. After that, you can configure Gpredict to display the new satellites.
Just a word of caution: you may have to do this a few times before it works, or at least I had to do it on my machine. I suggest you copy some existing files onto your desktop, edit them for the new birds, and then copy them into the correct directories.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL