Alan and Nick, SatPC32 reads the CAT data for a particular satellite from the aux. file Doppler.SQF which can be opened and edited from the menu "?", "Auxiliary Files". The spelling of the satellite's name in this file must exactly match the spelling in the Keps file. For the program FO-29 [+] is another satellite than FO-29. Therefore it will not use the FO-29 data with FO-29 [+].

You may either use another Keps file, i.e. nasa.all, which can be downloaded with the "DownloadKeps" function in the menu "Satellites", or in the file Doppler.SQF you may duplicate the data lines of the satellites you want to work and add the "comment" to the satellite's name. To duplicate the data lines you may use the "copy" and "paste" functions of Notepad.

73s, Erich, DK1TB

----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan P. Biddle" [email protected] To: "'Nick Pugh'" [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: satpc32 help

Nick,

That is an artifact of the way Keps are being supplied from Celestrak, not SATPC32. They are indicators of the current SC functionality, as the

other

poster mentioned. From an earlier report, SATPC32 works OK with them as

far

as tracking, but it can't locate the Doppler correction data since the

names

don't appear to match. If you want to use Doppler tracking, download from the AMSAT archives, or edit the files from Celestrak.

Tim had a good idea, in principle, but it would be nice if it were

possible

to select a download without "comments." Or perhaps the next version of SATPC32 could deal with the "improvement" by ignoring the status comments

on

the satellite name line. I just use the AMSAT Keps service and copy them

to

several directories they are needed.

73s,

Alan WA4SCA

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I was wondering if anyone has come along a program that would allow the use of live APRS location data from a high altitude balloon to be converted for azimuth and elevation control of a rotor on the ground for antenna control... to receive

relative

"weak" ATV signals.

The original MacAPRS did that and the APRSdos APRS-TK version will point a simple TV rotator to AZ/EL for satelllites. But I neer got around to the terrestrial pointing whichi would only take a few minutes of programming. But I lost my source code..

However, I am slowly re-doing it and hope to have a small PIC controller soon that will point TV rotators easily.

De Wb4aPR, Bob