Bob,
Can the old Caller ID boxes still decode this as you used to have posted on one of your MANY webpages? I haven't had any luck relocating that page again. I don't have a need for a new Kenwood yet so that is the reason I am asking.
James W8ISS ===== On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:25 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:
Unfortunately, I fear you have been misled... APRS...[gives] full tactical situational awareness... Satellite's-in-view/frequencies/doppler...
Ah, I found the old web page on the APRSdata engine that puts out the local satellites-in-view to all mobile APRS radios in the area showing the satellite in view, updated every minute on the front panel of the radio:
- Direction and distance to the bird
- Downlink and uplink frequency
- Current doppler for your location
- Direction of movement in the sky
And if you have the D700 voice unit, the radio will speak OSCAR-X HIGH, or OSCAR-X LOW as it moves across the sky... So you don't even have to look at the display.
See the web page: http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/APRSdata.html
Only one person per region needs to run this, and it updates all mobiles for the surrounding hundred miles. You never have to do satellite tracking again, yet you will be alerted to any satellite in view while you are mobile.
This program is over 10 years old, and someone should update this for Windows... And with a slight change in format, the new D710 will automatically tune it. I cannot make the changes, since I lost the source code years ago.
Bob WB4APR
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