Instead of downloading nasa.all and editing it, you can download nasabare.txt instead. The latter is exactly the same as nasa.all with the edits being suggested. That way you just need to rename, and not edit.
Martin. KD6YAM
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:35 PM Wendy and Terry Osborne via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Hi Scott,
Let's get Nova running first. The satellites are out of date because it's loading the Kep file from when the program was written.
To update the Keps, save the page from here: https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/nasa.all. Save this as a text file to somewhere useful like the desk top. This will give you a file called nasa.all.txt. Nova is a bit picky about the format of the Kep files. To get this correct: Rename this to remove the first dot and all (nasa.txt). Open the file (Notepad) and delete the packet header up to the blank line above AO7. The remove the /EX from the end of the file and save the modified file.
From the Kep. Elements menu, select "Disk file update" and "Manual update from file" This should bring up a screen "Update Keplerian Elements" . Click on "Update" and you should then be able to navigate to nasa.txt. (Change the drop down box from DATA Files to Text files). That should update the satellites for you.
If you go into "Views", "Configure the current view" and select the "Observers" tab, you will see a "Set up Observers" button. Select this and you should be able to set your location.
Let me know if this works OK.
73, Terry ZL2BAC
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Millick Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:23 PM To: Wendy and Terry Osborne Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Nova with Windows 10
Problem I have I can get it running but the satellites are out of date Having a lot of problems with satpc I got it running but no matter set for observer (I live in Illinois USA) it puts me in California and jave yet to figure it out I am just looking to display my choice of satellites and when they hit my footprint show it to me. When I had my satitllite antennas I use it to control my Yaesu rotors thanks
At 09:49 PM 9/8/2019, you wrote:
Hi Folks, Following a query from Scott on this bb, I like Nova and so I decided that I would investigate. I managed to install Windows 10 on my
old
Toshiba laptop. I found that it didn't like big capacity USB sticks (again). NOVA: See: https://www.nlsa.com/ If I installed Nova from the setup.exe, the program would run quite happily. I then tried installing
the
patch.exe and got this error message. “Exception ERegistryException in module NfW32.exe at 0007B3EA. Failed to set data for †. †Deleting
and
reinstalling setup.exe with the repair option, fixed the error and it now runs OK. This may help other people who have had this problem, see: https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-April/067601.html 73,
Terry
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