Alan and Nick, SatPC32 reads the CAT data for a particular satellite from the aux. file Doppler.SQF which can be opened and edited from the menu "?", "Auxiliary Files". The spelling of the satellite's name in this file must exactly match the spelling in the Keps file. For the program FO-29 [+] is another satellite than FO-29. Therefore it will not use the FO-29 data with FO-29 [+].
You may either use another Keps file, i.e. nasa.all, which can be downloaded with the "DownloadKeps" function in the menu "Satellites", or in the file Doppler.SQF you may duplicate the data lines of the satellites you want to work and add the "comment" to the satellite's name. To duplicate the data lines you may use the "copy" and "paste" functions of Notepad.
73s, Erich, DK1TB
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan P. Biddle" APBIDDLE@mailaps.org To: "'Nick Pugh'" quadpugh@bellsouth.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: satpc32 help
Nick,
That is an artifact of the way Keps are being supplied from Celestrak, not SATPC32. They are indicators of the current SC functionality, as the
other
poster mentioned. From an earlier report, SATPC32 works OK with them as
far
as tracking, but it can't locate the Doppler correction data since the
names
don't appear to match. If you want to use Doppler tracking, download from the AMSAT archives, or edit the files from Celestrak.
Tim had a good idea, in principle, but it would be nice if it were
possible
to select a download without "comments." Or perhaps the next version of SATPC32 could deal with the "improvement" by ignoring the status comments
on
the satellite name line. I just use the AMSAT Keps service and copy them
to
several directories they are needed.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
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