If you have a Palm or Pocket PC I recommend PocketSat+
Download it here http://www.bigfattail.com/software/pocketsatplus/index.html
If you don't have a PDA you can get old ones such as Palm IIIxe for almost free.
Once you know when and where the AOS and LOS is you track by ear. If you loose the signal mid-pass because of fads etc, a quick check of the plot
http://www.bigfattail.com/software/pocketsatplus/palm/images/colorpassplot.g if
and you know approximately where to pick up the pass.
73, Alan VE4YZ AMSAT 35968 http://www.mts.net/~ve4wsc/ AMSAT A-485
| |-----Original Message----- |From: Eric Fort eric.fort@gmail.com |Sent: May 2, 2007 4:51 PM |To: amsat-bb@amsat.org |Subject: [amsat-bb] armstrong antenna pointing | |When one is using an arrow antenna and an armstrong rotator |to work one |of the birds, how does one have any idea where to have the antenna |pointed when and what movements to make to keep it pointed? |It's a big sky up there. | |Eric |KG6KQT