KlaTrack [ Problem Saving Settings ]
Several operators recommended the KlaTrack software tool for help with visualizing upcoming passes from amateur satellites. It seems like exactly what I’m looking for.
Installed it on my Windows X, 64 bit machine without a problem. But I’m having trouble with saving the settings. When I make changes, such as entering my six digit grid square, or changing the theme, etc. Nothing changes on the display.
Restarting the software has no effect.
The installation instructions say that both Keps data and settings are stored in the “Home” directory and that you can also start the software using the command line. But that’s not very helpful.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure it’s operator error.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
You have gotten further than I. I tried everything and it does nothing at all here.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 4/24/2019 1:06 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Several operators recommended the KlaTrack software tool for help with visualizing upcoming passes from amateur satellites. It seems like exactly what I’m looking for.
Installed it on my Windows X, 64 bit machine without a problem. But I’m having trouble with saving the settings. When I make changes, such as entering my six digit grid square, or changing the theme, etc. Nothing changes on the display.
Restarting the software has no effect.
The installation instructions say that both Keps data and settings are stored in the “Home” directory and that you can also start the software using the command line. But that’s not very helpful.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure it’s operator error.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Try running it as administrator. Most of the sat tracking programs you need to run as administrator since Windows 7. Orbitron is that way or it won't save you keps updates.
73. Scott, KA7FVV Director - KBARA kbara.org Alternate Board of Director - AMSAT amsat.org Co-Owner WA7DRE 443.525 System Fusion Repeater Co-Owner KA7FVV 147.320 KBARA Repeater www.ka7fvv.net
On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:26, Joe via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
You have gotten further than I. I tried everything and it does nothing at all here.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
On 4/24/2019 1:06 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote: Several operators recommended the KlaTrack software tool for help with visualizing upcoming passes from amateur satellites. It seems like exactly what I’m looking for.
Installed it on my Windows X, 64 bit machine without a problem. But I’m having trouble with saving the settings. When I make changes, such as entering my six digit grid square, or changing the theme, etc. Nothing changes on the display.
Restarting the software has no effect.
The installation instructions say that both Keps data and settings are stored in the “Home” directory and that you can also start the software using the command line. But that’s not very helpful.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure it’s operator error.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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yup that's always the first thing I try. but nope.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 4/24/2019 1:32 PM, Scott wrote:
Try running it as administrator. Most of the sat tracking programs you need to run as administrator since Windows 7. Orbitron is that way or it won't save you keps updates.
- Scott, KA7FVV
Director - KBARA kbara.org Alternate Board of Director - AMSAT amsat.org Co-Owner WA7DRE 443.525 System Fusion Repeater Co-Owner KA7FVV 147.320 KBARA Repeater www.ka7fvv.net
On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:26, Joe via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
You have gotten further than I. I tried everything and it does nothing at all here.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
On 4/24/2019 1:06 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote: Several operators recommended the KlaTrack software tool for help with visualizing upcoming passes from amateur satellites. It seems like exactly what I’m looking for.
Installed it on my Windows X, 64 bit machine without a problem. But I’m having trouble with saving the settings. When I make changes, such as entering my six digit grid square, or changing the theme, etc. Nothing changes on the display.
Restarting the software has no effect.
The installation instructions say that both Keps data and settings are stored in the “Home” directory and that you can also start the software using the command line. But that’s not very helpful.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure it’s operator error.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Check your Java version and settings. Mark N8MH
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 2:52 PM Joe via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
yup that's always the first thing I try. but nope.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 4/24/2019 1:32 PM, Scott wrote:
Try running it as administrator. Most of the sat tracking programs you
need to run as administrator since Windows 7. Orbitron is that way or it won't save you keps updates.
- Scott, KA7FVV
Director - KBARA kbara.org Alternate Board of Director - AMSAT amsat.org Co-Owner WA7DRE 443.525 System Fusion Repeater Co-Owner KA7FVV 147.320 KBARA Repeater www.ka7fvv.net
On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:26, Joe via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
You have gotten further than I. I tried everything and it does nothing
at all here.
Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
On 4/24/2019 1:06 PM, Les Rayburn via AMSAT-BB wrote: Several operators recommended the KlaTrack software tool for help with
visualizing upcoming passes from amateur satellites. It seems like exactly what I’m looking for.
Installed it on my Windows X, 64 bit machine without a problem. But
I’m having trouble with saving the settings. When I make changes, such as entering my six digit grid square, or changing the theme, etc. Nothing changes on the display.
Restarting the software has no effect.
The installation instructions say that both Keps data and settings are
stored in the “Home” directory and that you can also start the software using the command line. But that’s not very helpful.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure it’s operator error.
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
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Opinions expressed
are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views
of AMSAT-NA.
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program!
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Gday Les and Joe,
I wonder if you have installed the Java 1.8 runtime environment which is required? You can download it from java.com.
The file which keeps all your saved preferences can be found in your "Home" directory here: C:\Users\winte\KLATrack where "winte" is the first part of my surname. Of course, you will have a different identifier.
73s from PG66wh
Greg
Greg Winterflood VK8KMD 5 Burke Street, Alice Springs EAST SIDE Northern Territory Australia 0870
Les, did you get it working? I know Joe did.
Just for reference, nothing I write will require you to run it as administrator.
It sounds like the program runs but the settings are not saved. When you ran it for the first time it popped up a window and said "data will be stored in C:\Users\XXXX\KLATrack" where XXXX is your username. Now it's possible that was a different directory as the program asks the OS for your home directory and it might return something different depending on how you have things configured. But look there and see if there is a directory. It should contain two files, klatracker.properties and nasabare.txt
Let me know if those files are there. The timestamp on the properties file should change if you update the settings. If that folder does not exist then I would expect the program to crash rather than just act odd, but you never know.
73 Chris
Chris
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:55 PM Greg Winterflood via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Gday Les and Joe,
I wonder if you have installed the Java 1.8 runtime environment which is required? You can download it from java.com.
The file which keeps all your saved preferences can be found in your "Home" directory here: C:\Users\winte\KLATrack where "winte" is the first part of my surname. Of course, you will have a different identifier.
73s from PG66wh
Greg
Greg Winterflood VK8KMD 5 Burke Street, Alice Springs EAST SIDE Northern Territory Australia 0870
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Chris,
My sincere apologies. I got it running two weeks ago. The day before we left for a work-related trip. It’s running great now.
The only issue was that I needed to resize the window so the that the “Save” button was visible. Operator error 100%. It’s a great program, and a real aid to satellite operators. Highly recommended.
Now if I can just find time to get on the air!
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF Maylene, AL EM63nf AMSAT #38965, ARRL Life Member, CVHS Life Member, SVHF Member
On Apr 27, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Chris Thompson g0kla@arrl.net wrote:
Les, did you get it working? I know Joe did.
Just for reference, nothing I write will require you to run it as administrator.
It sounds like the program runs but the settings are not saved. When you ran it for the first time it popped up a window and said "data will be stored in C:\Users\XXXX\KLATrack" where XXXX is your username. Now it's possible that was a different directory as the program asks the OS for your home directory and it might return something different depending on how you have things configured. But look there and see if there is a directory. It should contain two files, klatracker.properties and nasabare.txt
Let me know if those files are there. The timestamp on the properties file should change if you update the settings. If that folder does not exist then I would expect the program to crash rather than just act odd, but you never know.
73 Chris
Chris
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:55 PM Greg Winterflood via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote: Gday Les and Joe,
I wonder if you have installed the Java 1.8 runtime environment which is required? You can download it from java.com http://java.com/.
The file which keeps all your saved preferences can be found in your "Home" directory here: C:\Users\winte\KLATrack where "winte" is the first part of my surname. Of course, you will have a different identifier.
73s from PG66wh
Greg
Greg Winterflood VK8KMD 5 Burke Street, Alice Springs EAST SIDE Northern Territory Australia 0870
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