I see that the newest keps I downloaded yesterday has the wrong orbit number for FO-29!!!The last time I worked FO-29 was on 10/31/16 at 1619 gmt and the orbit number was 99797. Now I get an orbit number in the 50's.Has anyone else noticed this???? Perry WB8OTH
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Hello Perry,
You are right, problem shows due orbit number in TLE Keps is just 5 digits.
Therefore after 99999 , counts goes to 0.
In fact FO-29 is now at orbit 100,044 , same happens with ISS and AO-7.
I have accounted for this on http://amsat.org.ar/pass.htm that show correct and updated Orbit Numbers for satellites old enough to have overflowed the Orbit number.
73, lu7abf, Pedro
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Perry Yantis py41@att.net wrote:
I see that the newest keps I downloaded yesterday has the wrong orbit number for FO-29!!!The last time I worked FO-29 was on 10/31/16 at 1619 gmt and the orbit number was 99797. Now I get an orbit number in the 50's.Has anyone else noticed this???? Perry WB8OTH
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Perry,
SatPC32? Add 100,000 and you get about the right number, so it looks like Erich needs to add another space for numbers greater than 99,999. Same thing in Itrack.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
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