Alan,
I'm looking at the documentation and the format of the Doppler.SQF file. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but what you're talking about does not seem to be what I suggested.
Column 1 in Doppler.SQF is still the *name* of the satellite, rather than the satellite number or international identifier or some other invariant attribute of the satellite.
Does that name have to match up to what is in the TLE file, or what is in the AmsatNames.txt file?
That is, if I am using the AmsatNames.txt file and define a custom name for a given satellite, do the rest of my data files (other than the TLEs) then need to be modified to use the name I defined in AmsatNames.txt? Does the AmsatNames.txt file permit SatPC32 to ignore the name that my selected TLE source is using for that same satellite?
Thanks in advance,
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: devin@thecabal.org web: Devin on Earth cell: +1 425.239.2575
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org On Behalf Of Alan via AMSAT-BB Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 4:34 AM To: AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite Hiatus--Doppler.SQF
Devin,
<If that's the case, then why wouldn't it be possible to have a small tweak <made to SatPC32 -- perhaps as an option at first to facilitate testing and <backwards compatibility -- to use the satellite number *instead of the name* <as the key column for the DOPPLER.SQF file (and any other configuration files) <that refer to satellites?
Great news. That functionality has been in SatPC32 for years. Look at ? | Auxiliary Files |AmsatNames.txt. It does what you describe by allowing you to define a name for a satellite to be used with a catalog number (or international identifier) and substitutes your chosen name for all internal operations such as the CTCSS tone, tracking priority, Doppler calculations, etc. Very handy since AMSAT, CelesTrak, Space-Track, and often the individual satellite operators, use slightly different names. It is also handy when there is a "shotgun launch" and everybody is trying to sort out which satellite matches which object number. One change with each object number, and you are ready.
73,
Alan WA4SCA
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