Tracking Software
G'Day To All, OK..... I am entering the wonderful world of Satellites and in the process of setting up the station.I predominantly run Apple PCs (iMac & iOS). Are there preferred applications that I can run under these environments without having to run Windows in the background?
Pete VK4CCV
If you like Google Earth, Python and you enjoy hacking at code, you can find a fork of my old google earth satellite tracker here: https://github.com/u0m3/ge-satellite-tracker
Joseph Armbruster
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Pete Moscatt via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
G'Day To All, OK..... I am entering the wonderful world of Satellites and in the process of setting up the station.I predominantly run Apple PCs (iMac & iOS). Are there preferred applications that I can run under these environments without having to run Windows in the background?
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On 4/8/16, Pete Moscatt via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
G'Day To All, OK..... I am entering the wonderful world of Satellites and in the process of setting up the station.I predominantly run Apple PCs (iMac & iOS). Are there preferred applications that I can run under these environments without having to run Windows in the background?
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Hamlib is software which has the actual commands for controlling a radio. However, you'll also need a user interface and Gpredict works well for that. It not only tracks the satellite, it'll control the frequencies as well.
Both run on Linux and, I believe, they've been ported to OS X. I use them on a laptop that has openSUSE on it and I've had little difficulty in running my IC-910 with them, at least with the versions I have installed.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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