Hi,
The SatPC32 Update Keps feature doesn't work with https links for TLE files. That would require changes of the source code and maybe requires a new Delphi version for me. I will care about that but that will at least take time and at present I don't have much time for the hobby.
But all https websites can be accessed also with http. Then they
are no "secure" sites but that is meaningless with websites that
contain Keps. Therefore use http in the aux. file Celestrak.SQF
for AMSAT and Celestrak TLE (Two Line Elements) files, as
described by Charlie, AJ9N, see below. With that modification the
Download Keps function works.
Also, the https links can be accessed with your browser, of
course. Enter the links into the address line of the browser. So,
you can download the Keps and save them in the SatPC32 data folder
'Kepler' (see path to that folder in the footline of menu
'Satellites').
BTW: Meanwhile my website supports also SSL. You can access it
with
https://www.dk1tb.de
and
https://www.dk1tb-2.de
Also, SatPC32 supports now - besides TLE files - the new formats
for Keps files XML, KVN and CSV. Celestrak publishes the Keps
files also in these formats. The SatPC32 UpdateKeps feature works
with these files also when downloaded from https sites (I don't
know why that is different vs. the TLE files). Therefore you can
use https in Celestrack. SQF with these files, eg.
https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=amateur&FORMAT=xml
73s, Erich, DK1TB
Based on all of the email traffic on this, I thought I would modify my sqf file with the newest file names. But I had to remove the s in https in order to make it all work. The nasa.all file still seems to work.Here is what seems to work for me:http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
http://www.amsat.org/tle/current/dailytle.txt
http://www.amsat.org/tle/daily-bulletin.txtI don't know if SatPC32 needs to be modified to allow for an https in addition to allowing http or not.73,Charlie AJ9N
In a message dated 2024-07-07 11:52:42 Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:Is https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all still valid?
73,
Joe kk0sd
From: Wendy and Terry Osborne via AMSAT-BB <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2024 9:20 PM
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Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: amsatbare.txt file
Hi Mark,
I think "amsatbare.txt was superseded about a year ago.
At least that's the latest one I can find.
The current keps are updated daily see: https://www.amsat.org/tle/dailytle.txt
That's the file that comes up on the AMSAT web page.
I think that this was covered in the ANS at the time.
The issue arises when SatPC32 has the auto download configured for "amsatbare.txt" and the program can't find it.
To fix it:
1) Go into the help menu on SatPC32 (? symbol).
2) Go to "Auxiliary Files"
3) Select "Celestral.SQF". This opens in "Notepad"
4) Edit the top line that points to "amsatbare.txt" to read "https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/dailytle.txt"
73,
Terry ZL2BACOn 7/07/2024 7:59 am, Mark Johns, K0JM via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Superseded by WHAT??? It's still working fine for me, and there's been no word from AMSAT on that. Would you mind forwarding the whole message?
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On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM Bill Booth via AMSAT-BB <[email protected]> wrote:
Wendy and Terry Osborne wrote:
> amsatbare.txt has been superseded by
Thanks for this link. I now see lots of other amsat links of similar info so why
is there so many and I guess this one is the one to use
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