-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2017 12:24 PM To: Amsat [email protected] Cc: Steve Dimse [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Automating the AMSAT Status page for APRS satellites
Exactly. Many hams manually populate the AMSAT page every day.
This web site takes user reports by hand and does not draw from the world wide data stream of satellite ground stations.
Yep, a great opportunity for someone to write code to check the ARISS.NET and pcsat.findu.com downlink pages and check for last heard packet from RS0ISS, from PSAT. If it is from PSAT-1 then it is only beacons. If it is from PSAT itself, then the digipeater is on.
Though rather than randomly scarfing those pages, it might be more efficient if maybe the FINDU.COM page originated the status report to the AMSAT page every 2 hours.
But on the otherhand the page now is all manual and so it not only reflects the reported status it also shows the interest shown by the number of hams that take the time to report it.
If PSAT and ISS DATA were automatically updated, then they would show solid bars of reports, and no one would bother reporting, and we would not see if anyone cared enough to update it?
Besides, Steve just lives it when I suggest things for him to do... ;-)
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