Hi; I have finally been able to download Winorbit . The problem is that it has very few satellites
And a date of year 2000.
I tried to update the keps but I couldn,t get this to work.
Does anyone out there have any better luck with the program.???
Jerry w0sat
You update the Keps via a "stripped" (or what AMSAT calls a 'bare') Two Line Element (TLE) file. By "stripped" I mean it has ONLY the TLE data, without any other characters. Go to the AMSAT website, and then to the "Tools" page. Go to the "Keplerian Elements" section, and select the "Bare NASA (2-line) format elements". On that page, in your browser, use "Select All", and then "Copy". Open Windows Notepad, and "Paste" the files you just copied into the Notepad window. Save this file as "keps.tle" in the "keps" folder of WinOrbit. The next time you start WinOrbit, you'll see it updating the keps, *IF* you have "Enable Automatic Updating" enabled. To enable it, open the "Setup" tab at the top of the title bar, and select "Misc. Settings". Make sure the box for "Enable Automatic Updating" is checked. I've been using WinOrbit since it I first had a Windows PC, and it's a great little program. 73, Jim
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Hi; I have finally been able to download Winorbit . The problem is that it has very few satellites
And a date of year 2000. I tried to update the keps but I couldn,tget this to work.
Does anyone out there have any betterluck with the program.???
Jerry w0sat
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Hi Jerry,
I have used Winorbit but am not in front of that computer at the moment but I'll try to help.
To get the new list of satellites, download new keplerian elements. AMSAT has them:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/keps.php
Download the .2li file.
Save it to the keps sub-directory of the directory you installed WinOrbit to.
There is a manual update and automatic. If you turn automatic on, when you restart Winorbit it will see the new file in the keps directory and load it. Autoupdate can be turned on under: Options:Misc Settings
The Winorbit helpfile explains this further.
Hope this helps.
Kevin
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Jerry w0sat@msn.com wrote: From: Jerry w0sat@msn.com Subject: [amsat-bb] winorbit To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 2:59 PM
Hi; I have finally been able to download Winorbit . The problem is that it has very few satellites And a date of year 2000. I tried to update the keps but I couldn,t get this to work. Does anyone out there have any better luck with the program.??? Jerry w0sat _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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