Hi David, WinAOS shows the AOS and LOS times of multiple satellites in chronological order for the selected period (by default 1 day). When you click on a line all passes of THAT satellite will be highlighted. So you have better overview for a particular satellite.
The program checks the passes in steps of 1 minute and displays the times in full minutes. So, the maximum inaccuracy is within 1 minute (see the WinAOS "Help" text). That is sufficient for an overview, I think.
You should use the same Keps file with WinAOS that you use with SatPC32, i.e. nasa.all.
73s, Erich, DK1TB
----- Original Message ----- From: "David - KG4ZLB/MØZLB" m0zlb@btinternet.com To: APBIDDLE@mailaps.org; "Peter" roi@optonline.net Cc: "'amsat'" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: SatPC32
Many thanks Alan and Pete, sorry for the late reply but SW Florida just had an electrical and rain storm that was way worse than anything Fay threw at us Tuesday and knocked the internet out!
I am looking at WinAOS, that is what I was looking for so thanks for that!
I am just comparing the listing given to the Countdown list on the main screen and there are some differences and can you also tell me what the significance is of the blue blocked entries on the list?
73
David KG4ZLB
Alan P. Biddle wrote:
David,
The easiest way is to run the WinListen program, which is one of the auxiliary programs which is installed. Start it up, pick the source of Keps and the satellite, time span and time step of interest, and then tick Rising and Setting. You will note that the beginning and ending elevation usually is not exactly zero if you take the default step. Pick something smaller, 10 seconds or so, and it will be very close. There is an WinAOS program which gives related data in a slightly different format. Hopes this helps.
Alan WA4SCA