I can't find any explanation for why Celestrak added these status designators, but your best bet is to simply edit them out of the text file with Notepad or your favorite text editor. A search-and-replace for anything in brackets should do the job nicely. You might want to run SORTNENG first (available from AMSAT's download area) to delete any sats not of interest to you, so that you only have to edit a few.
BTW, SatPC32 doesn't seem to care about them...
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Yantis" pyantis@earthlink.net To: "Amsat BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:09 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] TLE data at celestrak.com
I see that the Celestial bbs has now changed its format without notice ahead of time.
While the keps still work in Nova OK, it does not work with Uni-track.
So how do I fix it???
I have used the Celestial BBS for years because it was straight text, no compacting, or fancy stuff that caused problems with Uni-track.
Why the change???
Perry WB8OTH
Perry Yantis pyantis@earthlink.net
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