Joe,
I used the AMSAT web site to check your numbers ( http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/predict/). Enter the coordinates you gave and choose "next 30 passes" or so to look ahead into the future.
The first passes of the day seem to be within +- 1 minute of your predictions for 50, 51, 27, and 16. ISS is about 4 minutes off, so you might want to update your keps for that one.
I didn't go beyond the first passes of June 15. As the textbooks say, that is an exercise left to the reader.
73 de AJ4MJ
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:49 PM, RFI-EMI-GUY [email protected] wrote:
Could some kind sole with a trusted program please run some or all of the satellites below for the date June 15, 2009 for the coordinates for Virgin Gorda BVI (listed below) and cross check my sample results below?
I am using keps 14 days old.
Thanks!
Location:
Virgin Gorda British Virgin Islands
Lattitude 18.433, Longitude - 64.416, 12 m AMSL
Radio visibility - Multiple satellite schedule for : Ao-16
Ao-16, Ao-27, Ao-51, Iss, So-50+------------------ AOS ------------------+MAX EL.+ ----- LOS ------ + UTC Date Time | Satellite Azm | Elev. | Time Azm | Duration 06/15/09 00:58:00 | So-50 313.1° | 21.1° | 01:10:00 183.3° | 00:12 06/15/09 05:10:00 | Ao-27 67.8° | 3.5° | 05:17:00 125.7° | 00:07 06/15/09 06:37:00 | Ao-16 48.3° | 12.5° | 06:48:00 150.6° | 00:11 06/15/09 06:46:00 | Ao-27 12.5° | 86.3° | 07:01:00 192.1° | 00:15 06/15/09 07:56:00 | Iss 181.1° | 13.0° | 08:04:00 64.5° | 00:08 06/15/09 08:15:00 | Ao-16 359.7° | 42.1° | 08:29:00 207.0° | 00:14 06/15/09 08:28:00 | Ao-27 325.0° | 5.3° | 08:37:00 250.9° | 00:09 06/15/09 09:29:00 | Ao-51 46.7° | 13.6° | 09:40:00 155.2° | 00:11 06/15/09 09:31:00 | Iss 250.1° | 17.4° | 09:40:00 22.1° | 00:09 06/15/09 11:06:00 | Ao-51 357.4° | 33.0° | 11:20:00 210.1° | 00:14 06/15/09 11:43:00 | So-50 146.4° | 6.1° | 11:53:00 61.9° | 00:10 06/15/09 13:21:00 | So-50 207.6° | 71.1° | 13:36:00 22.2° | 00:15 06/15/09 15:06:00 | So-50 279.1° | 4.1° | 15:13:00 339.5° | 00:07
-- Joe Leikhim K4SAT "The RFI-EMI-GUY"©
"Use only Genuine Interocitor Parts" Tom Servo ;-P
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