A patch to Predict itself would be a project for a better C hacker than myself, but an external script would be pretty easy, as long as the feed has the necessary data (name, NORAD number, freqs/bandwidth and keps) in a convenient format. If/when the feed goes up, I will write something and post it here for anyone interested.
Joe KJ4JIO: something like this would be easiest to parse for applications like this: (hope the listserv doesn't screw up my formatting)
<sat name="AO-7" norad=7530> <transponder name="Mode A" type="Linear"> <upstart>145.850</upstart> <upend>145.950</upend> <dnstart>29.400</dnstart> <dnend>29.500</dnend> </transponder> <transponder name="Mode B" type="Linear"> <upstart>432.125</upstart> <upend>432.175</upend> <dnstart>145.975</dnstart> <dnend>145.925</dnend> </transponder> <transponder name="FM/packet example" type="FM"> <upstart>145.850</upstart> <dnstart>436.800</dnstart> </transponder> <beacon name="Mode A beacon" freq=29.502 type="CW" /> <beacon name="Mode B beacon" freq=145.9775 type="CW" /> <kep1>1 07530U 74089B 09100.65238050 -.00000027 00000-0 10000-3 0 4485</kep1> <kep2>2 07530 101.4327 127.7953 0012098 041.9469 318.2525 12.53575514574259</kep2> </sat>
You could, of course, include some additional "human-readable" info that the parser would simply ignore.
-Joe, N8FQ
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:18:17 -0400 Josh Smith juicewvu@gmail.com wrote:
Joe, I would be very interested in a script that consumed this RSS feed and updated the predict.db file. Maybe even a patch to predict that made this a built in feature?