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On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 07:15:54 -0400 John Zaruba Jr aa2bn@comcast.net wrote:
GPredict is a wonderful satellite tracking application that when coupled with hamlib ( ham radio control libraries, with the rigctl and rotctl daemons) provides full radio and antenna control capabilities. That said, there is a bit of a learning curve getting it going as there are some aspects of the user interface that are decidedly non-intuitive. Though I think it is no more difficult than configuring SatPC32 on the windows side (this IS rocket science after all).
I want to second this. I'm using GPredict on an ASUS EeePC X101-CH with 1GB of RAM and an Intel Atom CPU at 1.6GHz. I picked it up second hand for about $65.
Those specs seem high but this is an underpowered little machine. GPredict works really well. I even have a custom cron task to download additional keps that aren't provided in GPredict itself.
Once you learn the oddities of its interface, it's really easy to use.
73 DE KD5RYO
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